# Presentation: 329609

## OWCP Interagency Meeting Agenda

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

## Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment (SHARE) Initiative

**Jonathan L. Snare**
**Acting Assistant Secretary**
**Occupational Safety and Health Administration**
***Interagency Meeting – March 21, 2006***

**Safety, Health, and Return-to-Employment (SHARE) Initiative**

## SHARE Initiative

**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**

## SHARE Goals

**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**

## SHARE Goals

**SHARE**** Goals**

**Align With:**
**President’s Management Agenda (PMA) goal on human capital**
**DOL’s strategic goals:**
**To foster quality workplaces that are safe, healthy, and fair**
**To minimize the impact of work-related injuries**
**OSHA’s mission to promote and assure workplace safety and health and reduce workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses**

## SHARE – DOL’s Role

**SHARE**** – DOL’s Role**

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

## 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)**

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

## Total Case Rate (TCR)

**Total Case Rate (TCR)**

## Lost Time Case Rate (LTCR)

**Lost Time Case Rate (LTCR)**

## SHARE – Goals Tracked by OSHA 

**SHARE**** ****– Goals Tracked by OSHA**** **

**Reduce TCRs by at least 3% per year**
**Reduce LTCRs by at least 3% per year**

## SHARE

**SHARE**
***Agency Progress Towards Meeting***
***OSHA Goals***

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

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

## Total Case Rates -- Goal #1 by Major Agency (FY 2005)

**Total Case Rates -- Goal #1**** ***by Major Agency (FY 2005)*

## Total Case Rates -- Goal #1 by Major Agency (1st Quarter FY 2006)

**Total Case Rates -- Goal #1**** ***by Major Agency (1**st** Quarter FY 2006)*

## Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2 Federal Government (less USPS)

**Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2**** ***Federal Government (less USPS)*

## Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2 by Major Agency (FY 2005)

**Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2**** ***by Major Agency (FY 2005)*

## Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2 by Major Agency (1st Quarter FY 2006)

**Lost Time Case Rates -- Goal #2**** ***by Major Agency (1**st** Quarter FY 2006)*

## OSHA Resources

**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

## Special Recognition

**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!**

## Special Recognition

**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!**

## Special Recognition

**Special Recognition**
***Achieved/Maintained Case Rates of Zero***

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

**Success!**

## www.osha.gov

**www.osha.gov**

## OWCPInteragency Meeting

- 			March 21, 2006

## Safety Health and Return to Employment (SHARE) Update

**Shelby Hallmark**
**Director, OWCP**

## 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

## FY05 Performance on Goals 3 and 4

## Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 Timeliness(filed in 14 calendar days)

**Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 Timeliness****(filed in 14 calendar days)**

- No Goal

## Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 TimelinessMajor Agency

## Goal 3 - CA-1/CA-2 TimelinessMajor Agency – FY06 Goal vs. Actual

## Goal 4 - Lost Production Days

**Goal 4 - Lost Production Days**

- No Goal

## Goal 4 - Lost Production DaysMajor Agency

## Goal 4 - Lost Production Days Major Agency – FY06 Goal vs. Actual

## Lost Production Days in QCM Cases

- Nationwide Averages
- Measured w/in 1st Year from the Date Wage Loss Began

## 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%

## 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

## 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

## 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

## 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

## Where do we go from here?

## 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

## For SHARE to succeed, we must do both:

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

## LPD “Musts”

- Government as a whole can’t meet SHARE LPD goal if ALL AGENCIES DON’T COMMIT AND IMPROVE
- Minor injures that aren’t accommodated become “SERIOUS” – RTW is key
- Goal 4 of SHARE can be met in 2006 but requires intense effort _now_

## 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.

## 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)

## 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)

## Division of Federal Employees’ CompensationFY 2005 – The Year In Review

**Douglas Fitzgerald**
**Director, DFEC**

## FECA Benefit Obligations

- *  FY 1996 includes one-time accounting adjustment of +$85 million.

- *

**FECA Benefit Obligations**
**Fiscal Years 1995 - 2005**

## FECA Claims Filed

**FECA Claims Filed**

**Notes:**
For FY06Q1 – 
 CA-1s, 5114 CA-2s, and 37987 CA-7s filed

## CA-7 Timeliness

**CA-7 Timeliness**
**(filed in 7 calendar days)**

## CA-7 Timeliness 

**CA-7 Timeliness**** **
**(by major agency)**

## Lost Production Days in QCM Cases

- Nationwide Averages
- Measured w/in 1st Year from the Date Wage Loss Began

## Program PerformanceInternal Measurements	

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

## Program PerformanceInternal 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.

**Notes:**
FY05 Goals:  CA-1 = 90% within 45 days; Basic OD = 85% within 90 days; Extended OD = 75% within 180 days and 98% within 365 days

## Program PerformanceInternal 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

**Notes:**
FY05Goals:  90% of written priority inquiries within 14 days; 92% of general written inquires within 30 days; 92% for all Quality measures for written correspondence; less than 3.13 average hold time; 

## Agency Query SystemClaimant 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

## ACS

## Treatment Suite Viewer

CA-16 Process

Medical Provider Outreach

ICD-9

- CA-16 Process
- Medical Provider Outreach
- ICD-9

**ACS Update**

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