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“We’re pleased Ohio employers recognize that workplace safety is vital to the health of their workforce, their businesses and our state’s economy,” McCloud said in a release from her office. “Their efforts to promote safe and healthy workplaces are clearly paying off, and they’re making it easier for us to maintain low and stable workers’ compensation rates now and into the future.”
The bureau’s board of directors meets Feb. 22. If the rate cut is approved, it would be effective July 1 and would save private employers $244 million over premiums for fiscal year 2019.
The proposed cut would follow a 12 percent reduction last year and a pattern of no increases since 2006, the state agency said.
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It would also follow a 12 percent rate cut for government employers that went into effect Jan. 1.
The bureau states that the average rates for the 242,000 Ohio employers are at their lowest in at least 40 years.
Premiums paid to the agency cover health care and wages for injured workers and support other services.
“Employer participation in these services has grown by more than 70 percent since 2010,” the bureau said. “Claims, meanwhile, have fallen 18 percent over that time to 85,136 in 2018.”
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