Our Safety Department is led by our Safety/Risk Manager Deborah Gentile, who oversees nine Safety Technicians. Ms. Gentile previously worked as a Senior Catastrophic Workers’ Compensation Examiner and earned a reputation as being fair and thorough in her investigations. She has over 13 years of experience in workers’ compensation law, safety and risk management and has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors. Some areas Ms. Gentile has had focus on include: manufacturing, agriculture, temporary staffing service, trucking, correctional facilities, boating, municipalities, and restaurants chains. In her many years in claims administration, Ms. Gentile has demonstrated her acumen in law by controlling and reducing the cost of workers’ compensation claims as well as formulating, implementing and administrating a wide variety of health and safety programs.
Our Safety Department is on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to make sure all incidents are handled timely and professionally. When a work related injury is reported to us, we immediately dispatch one of our Safety Technicians to pick up our employee and bring them to an industrial physician for examination and potential treatment. Our Safety Technicians complete all the legally required paperwork for filing the workers’ compensation claim, continue to bring our Employees to and from all doctor appointments, physical therapy appointments and any diagnostic appointments.
Our Safety Team provides excellent training per Cal/OSHA standards. We provide a copy of the signed Safety Training Attendance Roster to our clients. In addition, all of our employees that are hired as heavy laborers or machine operators (e.g. Forklifts, Tractor’s, Feeders, Front Loaders, and ATV’s) must pass a drug and alcohol test in addition to passing a pre-employment physical. This process is overseen from start to finish by one of our Safety Technicians.