--- title: "Badge of Health: A Health Management Program for Public Safety Employees" description: A common issue many insurers face is the complicating health factors that often accompany injuries in the public safety space. 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In these fields, personal health and fitness for duty often intersect, yet physical fitness standards for employees rarely exist. Here’s why this can lead to troublesome issues and how you can proactively address these concerns. #### **The Risk** It’s a fact that the majority of public safety employees are not required to demonstrate regular fitness for duty once the academy-training portion of their careers has concluded. This oversite oftentimes leads to deconditioning and the inability to perform essential physical job demands and functions, and it ultimately increases the odds an employee suffers a workplace injury. As a result, workers’ compensation injuries and benefit utilization are complicated by these health comorbidities. To put it simply, an employee with health or fitness issues has a higher risk of injury on the job and has a longer predicted and realized period of benefit activity, utilization and expense. The solution is clear. Improving employee health minimizes benefit utilization and leads to lower workers’ compensation claim expense and duration.    #### **The Solution** IPMG is a program administrator with experience in managing workers’ compensation claims for over 350 public entities. We’ve long observed how fitness for duty and employee health in the public safety space can influence and complicate benefit utilization in administering workers’ compensation benefits. As a result, IPMG developed a public safety employee health management system known as **Badge of Health** that administers services and resources in fundamental nutrition and weight loss, functional fitness and mental health. These services are specially designed around the unique nature of the roles filled by public safety employees and are overseen by an IPMG physician through IPMG’s Case Management division.  Administered over a one-year period, the benefits of the Badge of Health system include: - Reduced workers’ compensation claims - A culture of health and advancement to a department physical standard - Ability to combat the rising costs of medical claims and premiums on self-insured - Improved officer heath and productivity - Lowered benefit utilization and period for workers’ compensation  **How it Works**  The Badge of Health program consists of: #### MEDICAL SCREENINGS - Web and app-based health assessment - Biometric screenings (Know Your Numbers) - Onsite one-on-one consultation with clinical Health Management Specialist #### EDUCATION SESSIONS - Presentations: Knowing Your Numbers and Understanding Biometric Results - Nutritional programs - Injury prevention - Stress awareness  **Program Results** Departments that have implemented Badge of Health have demonstrated consistent improvement in employee health, safety and productivity. 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