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Risk Control Unit
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The Risk Control Unit works with agency executives, key managers, Safety Advisors and Risk Coordinators to help them establish effective safety and risk management systems within their agencies. These systems are designed to enable agencies to:
- Identify risks
- Analysis risks
- Mitigate risk exposures (through the development of loss control programs)
Risk Control Consultant's primarily focus on exposures covered by the self-insurance fund. This minimizes public funds diverted to pay for loss. By addressing risks associated with employee injury, tort liability and property assets, the Risk Control Unit assists agencies in maximizing funds for operations and services.
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| Major Program Areas |
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- Employee Injury Risk
Services are delivered to Oregonians through the knowledgeable, skilled employees who comprise state government’s workforce. Injury to employees is an operational risk with associated significant financial impacts. An employee injury disrupts operations and services, creates workers’ compensation costs, and results in soft, non-insured costs that can drain agency operating budgets.
- State-owned Property Protection
State property assets are a significant investment of public dollars. State property includes buildings, equipment, supplies and vehicles, all essential to provide services.
- Avoiding Harm to Third Parties and Employment Practice Liability
State agencies provide a wide variety of services to citizens and visitors. When an error occurs that causes harm and results in damages, the state´s self-insurance fund is tapped to pay for investigation, defense and resolution.
The Risk Control Unit Consultant's are available to help agencies identify, analyze and mitigate their loss exposures. This includes:
- Using past experiences to identify system breakdowns that resulted in harm.
- Applying an Incident Analysis process to identify all causes of the events that led to the harm.
- Utilizing a Risk Assessment process to identify exposures, quantify the risk and choose appropriate risk control techniques.
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| Primary Roles |
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The Risk Control Consultant provides advice to key managers on preventing and managing work caused injury and illness among state employees. This consultant’s major duties include:
The Risk Control Consultant's core responsibilities center around DAS RM’s role to protect state-owned assets and minimize lose to the state’s self-insurance fund. This includes:
- Assist state agencies in identifying known and potential risks, review loss control measures, research and advise agencies on potential loss control techniques for their risk control programs.
- Review of the Annual Risk Report (See Conditions for Payment, Property Self-Insurance Policy Manual) to identify adverse risks and advise agencies on implementation of risk control programs.
- Analyze loss data and complaints, claims and suits to assess statewide risks and identify areas for improvement.
- Advise on state self-insurance coverage and commercial insurance options for state exposures.
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| Risk Control Unit Activities |
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- Establish statewide benchmarks, monitor and report on agency performance.
- Issue the state´s self-insurance policy manual and special agency endorsements.
- Make loss data available to agencies enabling them to analyze and identify areas of loss, as well as, monitor effectiveness of risk mitigation and control.
- Design and develop a variety of strategic tools and guides for agencies to use to address and manage their risk of loss while sustaining their agency’s safety and risk programs.
- RisKeys are topic specific guides to controlling risk in Oregon state government.
- Risk Toolkits are a combination of tools and information developed during special projects. They include:
- Provide training and development of Agency Risk Coordinator and Safety Advisor staff through:
- Biennial Risk Seminar and the Loss Management in State Government workshop series.
- New Risk Coordinator and Safety Advisor orientation.
- Job Shadow at RM.
Contract liability is not covered by the state´s self-insurance fund.
The Risk Control Unit provides limited assistance in Contract Decision Making.
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