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Dashboards have been powerful. We have executive meetings weekly which we bring that information into those meetings and we are able to communicate very clearly and accurately where we currently stand and we hope the other executives in the company understand where we are and where we need to focus. It has been extremely powerful to have that information readily available where you can pull it up anywhere we have internet access and you can leverage that data.

When we started this over a year ago, our incident rate was 1.43. Today we are well below 1, and we are going to continue and I attribute that in part to AIC. The correction action model is a great example of being able to monitor, engage, and measure the activities that we intend versus just measuring accidents or things that we don’t intend. So it has allowed us to engage and bring a new level of transparency to our business. Again, I think it has a lot to do with our culture but I think that AIC system has helped us to enhance that culture with the information.

We actually have been in the department with AIC in our structural hierarchy, we have been able to really show so much value because in the past it was very much a manual process, a very time-consuming process to put it all together and package it correctly. So it is not a clickable button but it is certainly much faster and much more sophisticated. Since 2000, we began using it as an ocean log and in 2002 we transitioned to a new third-party administrator and that is when we began using it in a more robust way.

AIC’s contribution to veteran’s education and college is a huge step and I wish more industries and more corporations will look at doing these kind of things. Veterans come out and they have kind of an idea what they want to do, not really sure, I think when a company like AIC comes forward with some tuition aid and some ideas on how they can nurture their background into a future background, I think it just speaks volumes. I applaud AIC for doing what they did.

This is actually my second implementation of the AIC solutions. I recently had changed employers and came to an employer that once again was in a situation where their incident reporting tools were very outdated and really not effective enough for them to be able to manage the information and learn from the incidents.