2. Insurance Certificate
Your client in ISNetworld® will most likely require you to upload an insurance certificate into your ISNetworld® account. Once this is done, ISNetworld® will review your insurance certificate to ensure that it meets all of the coverage requirements. If your insurance certificate doesn’t meet the minimum coverage requirements, ISNetworld® compliance is typically not possible. If your insurance certificate fails ISNetworld® review, we do have a couple of options like an insurance variance (this is a request for lower insurance coverage requirements) but typically, only about 25% of all insurance variances are accepted.
– Click here to learn more about insurance variances in ISNetworld®.
3. Safety Programs
Depending on the type of work your company performs, you will be required to upload between 10 to 30 different safety programs. Some people call safety programs RAVS®. A safety program outlines your company’s procedures on items like Fire Safety or Ladder Safety. Once you upload your required safety programs (RAVS®), ISNetworld® will review them and if they don’t meet their requirements, they will reject them. At that time you’ll have to modify your safety programs and then resubmit them for review. It takes ISNetworld® about 2 weeks to review a safety program so depending on how many times they reject your safety programs, this can be a long process. Safety programs account for about 30-40% of ISNetworld® Compliance.
4. ISN’s Questionnaire
In addition to uploading your safety documents, ISNetworld® has about 1,000 different questions they would like you to answer. Some of the questions are very simple and others are very specific and address your safety procedures. Your client will look at about 30 of these questions and if you answered them incorrectly your grade in ISNetworld® will suffer. Typically this part of your grade only accounts for 10-15% of ISNetworld® Compliance.
5. Your EMR/NCCI Rating
An EMR is a mathematical formula that is based on the number of workman’s compensation claims that have been filed against your company. An EMR of 1.0 or less is good. An EMR above 1.1 is going to hurt your company’s grade in ISNetworld®. Small companies and companies less than 3 years old don’t typically have an EMR rating, which is a good thing. In this case all you would need to do is upload a letter into ISNetworld® stating you don’t qualify for an EMR. The EMR score counts for about 10-15% of your ISNetworld® Compliance.
6. Federal Citations
ISNetworld® will search OSHA’s and the EPA’s database for your company name. If they find that your company had a federal citation in the last 3 years, ISNetworld® will deduct points from your overall score. Federal citations typically account for 10-20% of ISNetworld® Compliance.
– Click here to search your company name in the OSHA federal citation database.
These 6 items will account for 90% of your score in ISNetworld®. Most companies that have used our services don’t have an issue with any of these items and they achieve ISNetworld® Compliance quickly.
