{"id":1427,"date":"2018-09-12T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2018-09-12T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:24:08","slug":"when-miosha-cet-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/when-miosha-cet-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"When MIOSHA CET Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Chris Demeter, Senior Loss Control Consultant<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s 10:00 a.m., you hear a knock on the door, you get up and see someone who looks very official standing there, you open the door and they introduce themselves. \u201cHi my name is Kristin, I\u2019m with MIOSHA CET\u2026\u201d your heartbeat quickens, you are no longer listening to the woman at the door, you\u2019re thinking, is the boss here? What am I going to do? Before you know it, she has passed you a business card and turned away, leaving you standing there. You take a second and realize she is not coming in, so you just pass it off as a near miss and put the card in your desk without a second thought. That might be a mistake not inviting her in for a non-enforcement hazard survey. You may already know this, but MTMIC has had an alliance with MIOSHA CET for many years and have assisted many policyholders with CET services with positive results. As you know we are a proactive insurance company and are always finding ways to reduce injuries and provide our policyholders with valuable resources to use.<\/p>\n

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I would like to introduce one of MIOSHA CET\u2019s Industrial Hygienist and my liaison, her name is Kristin Osterkamp. Kristin was appointed to MIOSHA\u2019s Consultation Education and Training (CET) Division in 2006. She currently provides industrial hygiene related services to Oakland, Macomb, and St Clair counties in SE Michigan. Kristin is a CIH, CSP, and has a Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Michigan and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Elmhurst College in Illinois. Last month I asked Kristin if she would write a short exposition on the alliance that MIOSHA CET and MTM has had over the\u00a0years; this is what she wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

MIOSHA and MTMIC Alliance<\/p>\n

\"\"On January 19, 2006, The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) and Manufacturing Technology Mutual Insurance Company (MTMIC), formerly known as the Michigan Tooling Association Workers\u2019 Compensation Fund, signed a 3-year formal alliance agreement to protect the safety and health of Michigan\u2019s metalworking industry workers. Since 2006, this Alliance has been renewed three times and is eligible for a fourth renewal in October 2018.<\/p>\n

Some of the initiatives associated with this Alliance include:<\/p>\n