OWCP Interagency Meeting Agenda

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OWCP Interagency Meeting Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions
• SHARE FY2005 Performance
• OSHA
• OWCP
• DFEC FY2005 Overview
• Statistics
• iFECS
• ACS

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Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment (SHARE)
Initiative
Jonathan L. Snare Acting Assistant
Secretary Occupational Safety and Health
Administration Interagency Meeting March 21,
2006
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SHARE Initiative

• Federal Executive Branch initiative announced in
  Presidential memo dated January 9, 2004
• Emphasis on return-to-work programs
• Runs FY 2004 FY 2006
• Establishes 4 goals--2 OSHA and 2 OWCP

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SHARE Goals

• To reduce Total Case Rates by at least 3 per
  year
• To reduce Lost Time Case Rates by at least 3 per
  year
• To improve the timely filing of injury and
  illness notices by at least 5 per year
• 4) To reduce the rates of lost production days
  due to injuries and illnesses by at least 1 per
  year

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SHARE Goals

• Align With
• Presidents Management Agenda (PMA) goal on human
  capital
• DOLs strategic goals
• To foster quality workplaces that are safe,
  healthy, and fair
• To minimize the impact of work-related injuries
• OSHAs mission to promote and assure workplace
  safety and health and reduce workplace
  fatalities, injuries and illnesses

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SHARE DOLs Role

• Lead the Initiative
• Provide assistance to agencies
• Measure the performance of each department and
  agency against their goals
• Report annually to the President

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S-T-R-E-T-C-H Goals

• Agency TCR LTCR
• Department of Defense 4 4 (05/06)
• Department of Treasury 6 6 (all)
• Armed Forces Retirement Home Board 5 5 (all)
• Farm Credit Administration 100 N/A (04)
• FDIC 5 5 (all)
• Federal Mediation/Conciliation Service 100 N/A
  (04)
• International Trade Commission 100 N/A (04)
• SEC 4 4 (04)
• Selective Service System 75 N/A (04)
• OPM 22 15 (05)

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Total Case Rate (TCR)
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Lost Time Case Rate (LTCR)
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SHARE Goals Tracked by OSHA

• Reduce TCRs by at least 3 per year
• Reduce LTCRs by at least 3 per year

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• SHARE
• Agency Progress Towards Meeting
• OSHA Goals

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Total Case Rates -- Goal 1 Federal Government
(less USPS)

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Total Case Rates -- Goal 1 by Major Agency (FY
2005)
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Total Case Rates -- Goal 1 by Major Agency (1st
Quarter FY 2006)
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Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal 2 Federal
Government (less USPS)

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Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal 2 by Major Agency
(FY 2005)
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Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal 2 by Major Agency
(1st Quarter FY 2006)
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OSHA Resources How We Are Helping Agencies

• Training
• Outreach materials
• OSHA Training Institute
• Councils
• Agency Technical Assistance Requests (ATARs)
• Cooperative Programs
• Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)
• Partnerships
• Alliances
• Web Resources
• Performance data for all SHARE goals on the DOL
  website

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Special Recognition Achieved 10 Reduction in
Case Rates

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Labor
• Department of Navy
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Treasury
• Agency for International Development
• Armed Forces Retirement Home Board
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Federal Election Commission
• Federal Housing Finance Board
• Federal Labor Relations Authority

Success!
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Special Recognition Achieved 10 Reduction in
Case Rates

• General Services Administration
• International Boundary Water Commission
• International Broadcasting Bureau Board
• of Governors
• National Aeronautics and Space Admin.
• National Credit Union Admin.
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Gallery of Art
• National Science Foundation
• Occupational Safety Health Review Commission
• Securities Exchange Commission
• Social Security Administration
• Tennessee Valley Authority

Success!
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Special Recognition Achieved/Maintained Case
Rates of Zero

• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Export/Import Bank
• Federal Maritime Commission
• National Mediation Board

Success!
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www.osha.gov
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OWCPInteragency Meeting

• March 21, 2006

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Safety Health and Return to Employment (SHARE)
Update

• Shelby Hallmark
• Director, OWCP

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SHARE

• Two years of initiative are complete
• Government timeliness goal met and exceeded by
  almost 30
• Government LPD goal missed by 2.2
• 56.1 days for FY05 represents improvement over 62
  days for FY04

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FY05 Performance on Goals 3 and 4
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Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 Timeliness(filed in 14
calendar days)
No Goal
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Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 TimelinessMajor Agency
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Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 TimelinessMajor Agency FY06
Goal vs. Actual
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Goal 4 - Lost Production Days
No Goal
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Goal 4 - Lost Production DaysMajor Agency
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Goal 4 - Lost Production Days Major Agency
FY06 Goal vs. Actual
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Lost Production Days in QCM Cases
Nationwide Averages Measured w/in 1st Year from
the Date Wage Loss Began
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Exceptional Achievements in Timeliness for FY05

• Gold Star Agencies
• met their goals and exceeded 80 timeliness
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission 100
• Labor 93.2
• Veterans Affairs 85.5

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Exceptional Achievements in Lost Production Days
for FY05

• Gold Star Agencies
• met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
• Air Force 30.5
• Army 35.6
• Defense 33.1
• Education 12.1
• Environmental Protection Agency 9.7
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 35.1
• Executive Office of the President 0.2
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -6.1

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Exceptional Achievements in Lost Production Days
for FY05

• Gold Star Agencies (continued)
• met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
• Federal Labor Relations Authority - 0
• Federal Trade Commission 3.9
• General Services Administration 31.7
• Health Human Services 19.8
• Holocaust Memorial Council - 0.7
• International Broadcasting Bureau 8.6
• Labor 32.2

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Exceptional Achievements in Lost Production Days
for FY05

• Gold Star Agencies (continued)
• met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
• NASA 4.7
• National Credit Union Administration 48.3
• National Endowment for the Arts 14.8
• National Science Foundation -2.9
• National Transportation Safety Board 0
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission 3.8
• Office of Navajo Hopi Indian Relocation - 1.9

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Exceptional Achievements in Lost Production Days
for FY05

• Gold Star Agencies (continued)
• met their goals and had fewer than 45 LPD
• Office of Personnel Management - 10.8
• Railroad Retirement Board - 3.7
• Securities and Exchange Commission - 7.7
• Selective Service System 3.4
• Social Security Administration 27.6
• The Kennedy Center - 20.7
• Transportation 35.9

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Where do we go from here?
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What is OWCP doing?

• Employee Express Claimant Query System rolled
  out to EEX users
• District Office targeting of agencies
• Improvements to the SHARE website
• Training sessions and seminars

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For SHARE to succeed, we must do both

• Reduce the number of serious injuries
• Get people back to work
• Its a joint Safety and Workers Comp. activity,
  and agencies have to get both right

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LPD Musts

• Government as a whole cant meet SHARE LPD goal
  if ALL AGENCIES DONT COMMIT AND IMPROVE
• Minor injures that arent accommodated become
  SERIOUS RTW is key
• Goal 4 of SHARE can be met in 2006 but requires
  intense effort now

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FECA Reform (Redux)

• Applies to new claims only.
• Strengthens the program while still maintaining
  generous benefits.
• Projected savings of 591.6 million over the next
  10 years.

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FECA Reform

• Incentives
• Conversion benefit for retirement aged
  claimants
• Setting compensation at 70 for all claimants
• Change the schedule award to allow for payment
  during the wage loss period, eliminate FECA/OPM
  shuffle
• Retirement Bonus (Allen bill)

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FECA Reform

• Equity and Fixes
• Restore waiting period
• Allow for subrogation of COP for Third Party
  Claims
• Update disfigurement and burial payments
• Pay all schedule awards at average salary rate
  (GS-11 step 3)

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Division of Federal Employees CompensationFY
2005 The Year In Review

• Douglas Fitzgerald
• Director, DFEC

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FECA Benefit Obligations Fiscal Years 1995 - 2005

FY 1996 includes one-time accounting
adjustment of 85 million.
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FECA Claims Filed
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CA-7 Timeliness (filed in 7 calendar days)
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CA-7 Timeliness (by major agency)
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Lost Production Days in QCM Cases
Nationwide Averages Measured w/in 1st Year from
the Date Wage Loss Began
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Program PerformanceInternal Measurements

• Workload Processing for 2005
• 151,690 new cases created
• 125,571 decisions issued
• 21,455 initial claims for wage loss received

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Program PerformanceInternal Measurements

• Workload Processing for 2005
• 93.2 of 129,528 traumatic cases adjudicated
  within 45 days.
• 87.8 of 15,793 basic occupational disease cases
  adjudicated within 90 days.
• 76.7 of 5,403 extended occupational disease
  cases adjudicated within 180 days.
• 99.3 of extended occupational disease cases
  adjudicated within 365 days.

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Program PerformanceInternal Measurements

• Communications Performance for 2005
• 86.6 of general written inquiries answered
  within 30 days
• 97.4 met courtesy standards
• 93.8 met knowledge and accuracy standards
• 95.4 met clear language standards
• Less than 2.55 minutes average hold time for
  telephone inquiries to district offices

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Agency Query SystemClaimant Query System

• Claimants can use Employee Express to access
  their claim information
• Other Agencies systems can now be addressed as a
  result of successful integration with Employee
  Express
• AQS now refreshed daily

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ACS
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ACS Update

• Treatment Suite Viewer
• CA-16 Process
• Medical Provider Outreach
• ICD-9

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