Agenda - Council Work Session - 09/11/2012

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Raw Data Explanatory Notes CPM 101 Annual Report: FY 2011 Risk Management / 148 fuel), purchasing, information technology (and all telephone calls and system administration), and human resources. • Wage continuation: This includes any employer- sponsored accident plan for selected employees beyond standard workers' compensation that will continue all of, or a portion of, their monthly salary in the event of a disability. • Worker's compensation expenditures: This includes several components, which are each requested separately: Claim Expenditures (deductibles and self- insured payouts), premiums, staff and contractual expenditures, third party administrator expenditures, and all other expenditures. For Workers Compensation, there is also a separate line item for Wage Continuation benefits that may be paid to public safety employees or as a condition of certain labor agreements. This also includes actual expenditures paid during the fiscal year being reported, regardless of whether the incident or claim occurred during the current fiscal year. It excludes anticipated expenditures, estimates of final claim expenditures, accruals and reserves. If your local government participates in CPM 101, you may access the raw data for this report on the CPM 101 Knowledge Network group located here. For assistance on accessing the group or locating the file please send an e-mail to CPM (cpmmail@ icma.org). (Non - participants do not receive access to the raw data.) Figure 13 - 3 • Some variation may be due to differences in vehicle policies, such as those involving assignment of a vehicle to a particular officer or team of officers, defensive driving, and low- or high -speed chases. • Fort Lauderdale, FL reported a response of 297 accidents involving police and law enforcement vehicles. To avoid skewing the figure, this data point is not displayed but is included in all mean and median calculations. Figure 13 - 4 • Some variation may be attributed to differences in the types of operations undertaken by in -house staff compared with those undertaken by contractors or other agencies. For instance, if road construction, trenching, or other high -risk tasks are handled by contractors, the jurisdiction may not bear the costs of these risks directly. • Additional variation may relate to differences in policy or statute, such as presumption that heart /lung health problems or certain cancers are work related for public safety workers. The number of claims may also be affected by other factors such as the extent of specialized training and the awarding of bonuses or other incentives for employee or work group safety. Figure 13 - 5 • This figure does not include any claims expenditures or expenditures for third party vehicle damage or injury. OICMA Center for Performance Measurement'"