Safety in Numbers

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2015

The Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles’s (HACoLA) Risk Management Unit (RMU) faced challenges in minimizing staff injury exposure as it tirelessly worked to maintain HACoLA’s 3,229 public and affordable housing units. Given the inherent job hazards, the maintenance team is vulnerable to work-related injuries and illnesses. Their work can be physically demanding, requiring frequent bending, lifting, and working with power tools. HACoLA implemented an injury prevention program focused on safety practices, including meetings with safety as the priority. As a result of HACoLA’s proactive injury prevention program, the 44-person maintenance team worked over 289,000 hours without a lost time injury and zero temporary disability from January 2012 through February 2015.