Missouri Employers Mutual (MEM) has awarded Warren County 911 Emergency Services a $1,350 safety grant to help fund equipment to meet COVID-19 safety needs. The MEM Safety Grants program partners …
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Missouri Employers Mutual (MEM) has awarded Warren County 911 Emergency Services a $1,350 safety grant to help fund equipment to meet COVID-19 safety needs. The MEM Safety Grants program partners with policyholders to identify a safety need or improvement that can reduce or eliminate illnesses or injury in the workplace.
At Warren County Emergency Communications Center, social distancing on the job is not possible. Four to six dispatchers are stationed together in one room for 12-hour shifts.
The 22-person staff serves two ambulance districts, three fire districts, three police departments and the sheriff’s office. MEM’s safety grant program will allow them to purchase an air purifier system to improve the quality of their HVAC system.
“Everyone here was so excited to learn we received the grant,” said Megan Ramey, administrative assistant with Warren County Dispatch. “We are hoping the air purifier will help keep us well, and we are really grateful.”
Missouri Employers Mutual awarded a total of $209,600 to 33 policyholders in Missouri for the implementation of new safety equipment to promote safer workplaces. This brings the total amount of safety grants awarded to nearly $1.75 million since 2016, affecting more than 7,000 employees.
In addition to routine safety interventions and products, this cycle MEM offered policyholders the opportunity to apply for grants for COVID-19 safety measures.
“COVID-19 has brough unprecedented safety challenges to businesses,” said Jim Owen, president and CEO of MEM. “Our safety grant program supported businesses in quickly getting the equipment they needed to keep their employees safe and healthy.”
Eight of 33 grant award winners received funds for COVID-19 related items. In 2021, MEM will celebrate five years of the safety grants program, and past recipients are seeing positive results.
In the two years prior to receiving their grants, 226 recipients experienced 254 claims totaling nearly $5 million. Since implementing the safety equipment purchased with their grants, recipients have only experienced only 12 claims totaling less than $50,000 in the areas addressed by their grant funded equipment.
