PIPS Safety Incentive Program

While we encourage all members to participate and qualify for their share of the funds available under this program, participation is entirely voluntary.

The program begins on July 1, 2025 and will be re-evaluated each year.

You have until June 30, 2026 to complete the qualification criteria and successful completion will be extremely dependent on completing your selected items timely and regularly throughout the year, well in advance of the June deadline, as some of the criteria is only available on specific dates.

PIPS has designated a total of $5 Million to support its members in this incentive program. Each member of PIPS has a pre-determined amount based on their pro-rata size of the total PIPS membership. Please contact your Keenan Account Manager to get your specific amount.

This should be done during your Risk Improvement Action Plan meeting, and will be determined based on your specific loss trends and in consultation with your Keenan Loss Control Advisor and Risk Management Analyst.

Kudos for already having built some of the elements of a comprehensive employee safety/workers’ compensation program! The goal for this incentive program is to encourage members to make future progress and improvement to their programs and as such, the items identified need to be new or otherwise not implemented yet.

Yes, as long as the new item(s) you want to switch these out for are in line with improving the programs based on your loss trends and there is enough time in the year to successfully implement the newly-selected item.

Any funds remaining from members that are unable to complete the qualification criteria or elect to not participate in the program will be left in the designated fund for potential future use. PIPS will re-evaluate the success of this program before June 30, 2026 and determine how they want to proceed in the future.

The member/district is ultimately responsible for ensuring the items they have selected are completed before June 30, 2026. Anyone can complete the criteria, and those decisions should be made in consultation with your designated Keenan Loss Control Advisor and Risk Management Analyst. Many of the qualification criteria are services that your Keenan team can provide as a PIPS-provided service. In addition, the District can select items that are fully achievable to complete within their own operations.

Keenan tracks each member’s progress towards completing the qualification criteria. Any initiatives that you have selected that Keenan is on point for providing will be automatically tracked for you. For all others that you choose to complete within the District or through another means should be reported to your designated Keenan Loss Control Advisor so they can update your Risk Improvement Action Plan and our internal tracking sheet.

PIPS is a risk-sharing program, which means that all member districts benefit from the efforts and improvements that each individual member makes towards keeping employees safe. PIPS has created a fiscally strong and stable program that provides services to support its members’ efforts towards keeping employees safe, and strongly believes that investing in its members helps districts achieve their risk management and educational goals by keeping employees safe at work.

No. If you don’t have any employees in one of the four occupation groups, you will not need to register for those applicable groups.

That is fantastic!  One of the many values of being a member of PIPS are fully integrated, comprehensive, and essentially unlimited risk-management related services and resources that you have access to from your dedicated Keenan Risk Management Analyst, Loss Control Advisor, Account Manager, and Claims team representatives.  Our subject matter experts have literally hundreds of years of combined experience specifically in helping California public schools effectively manage their employee safety and workers’ compensation program.  We are also the conduit to help share various best practices that other member districts have implemented, to help everyone in PIPS make impactful and lasting improvements to their programs.  Simply reach out to your Keenan team to start creating a plan that is tailored to your specific needs and goals.