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Upcoming GRIP Webinars Getting Your GRIP on Claims, Comp, and Safety April 6, May 4, June 1 | 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Supervising for Safety April 6 | 1 –2 p.m. Incident Reporting May 4 | 1 –2 p.m. Residential Construction Fall Awareness June 1 | 1 –2 p.m. Visit mbaks.com/events for up-to-date information on the status of events. G roup Retro is called that for a reason: it takes every single member to have a high-performing group. Everyone must work to limit injuries and keep claim costs down when an injury does occur— but you are not alone, and GRIP is here to help! Group managers, safety claims managers, Return to Work managers, and We Are Better Because We Work Together Find out more about GRIP at mbaGRIP.com GRIP = Group Retrospective Insurance Program. We are in this together. Every dollar of claim costs affects the group refund, which affects how much refund each participant receives. Individual employer claim expenses take refunds away from not only themselves but from others in the group. We encourage all participants to not only consider the impact costs have on them, but their colleagues as well. ASHLEE DAY, GRIP Group Manager The importance of safety collaboration between the field, office, and leadership teams cannot be underestimated. The overall success of injury prevention rests within the collective efforts of team members to identify and communicate project hazards, from the project planning phase to completion. MICHAEL OCTAVE, Vice President Safety and Loss Control reimbursement coordinators all work in concert to support GRIP members at the highest level to achieve the lowest workers' compensation costs. Better Together—Safety In a perfect world there would be no workplace injuries. Unfortunately, that is not a reality for most businesses, and thousands of people are injured every year on jobsites. A safe worksite does not happen on its own; it takes the whole team to make sure that safety is a priority. Better Together—Return to Work (RTW) RTW + Stay at Work (SAW) Reimbursement + GRIP Reimbursement Match = up to 100% wage reimbursement. Eliminating time loss by returning your employee to work after an injury, within their doctor-ordered restrictions, is the single most important thing you can do to help control claim costs. As a GRIP participant, you are eligible to get up to 100% of wages reimbursed by providing modified duty to injured workers. GRIP will reimburse your company 50% of the base wages for your modified-duty workers. Paired with the 50% the state already offers through the SAW program you can now get reimbursed up to 100% of the base wages for 66 days or $20,000 per claim. 32 master BUILDER | SPRING 2023 MEMBERSHIP VALUE