Group Rating Sponsor Accountability Letter

Each year Ohio employers have the opportunity to participate in BWC’s Group-Experience-Rating Program or Group-Retrospective-Rating Program. While these programs are not required, they do provide you with an opportunity to significantly reduce your workers’ compensation premiums, while increasing your awareness of safety and risk-management strategies.

Workplace safety is an important component of these programs. To succeed in accident prevention, we encourage you to use the many resources available to you. We believe a group-rating program is a partnership that includes you and your employees, your sponsoring organization or third-party administrator (TPA) and BWC. Each has specific roles and responsibilities, all designed to assist in preventing workplace accidents. This letter outlines the safety services expectations you should have as an employer enrolled in a group-rating program.

For more information and the accountability matrix click here.

BWC Division of Safety & Hygiene

BWC’s Division of Safety & Hygiene provides a variety of programs, services and resources to help Ohio employers create a safe and healthy workplace. Our mission is to maintain a healthy, productive and competitive workforce in Ohio by preventing occupational accidents, injuries and illnesses. Businesses that have built safety and wellness into their workplace cultures reap many benefits, including fewer accidents, lower workers’ compensation costs and more productive employees.

Your workers’ compensation premiums cover the costs of the services, education programs and resources.  Click here to see a compreshsive list of services.

BWC Group Rating Safety Training Requirements

If an employer participating in group-rating or a group-retrospective-rating plan has a claim within the green year period, the employer must attend two hours of annual safety training or complete BWC’s online accident analysis form and associated accident analysis course as stated in Ohio Administrative Code 4123-17-68.  For more details on this requirement click here.