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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Customer Service
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Industrial Safety and Health
The Industrial Safety and Health (ISH) section
within the Division of Workers
Compensation provides free Industrial Safety and Health
consultation services to the
private sector and is also
Accomplishments
responsible for monitoring the
public sector (cities, counties, Consultations for Private Employers
municipalities and school Consultations performed .....................................1,278
districts) by performing safety Hazards identified ................................................5,500
and health audits to identify Hazards classified as serious ..............................3,438
hazards in the workplace to
which public employees are
exposed pertaining to workers Public sector
compensation. The section Inspections performed ............................................516
is comprised of units dealing Discrepancies identified & corrected .................... 2,093
with consultation, accident Employee complaints assessed ............................... 11
prevention and boiler safety
Fatalities investigated .................................................0
inspection.
Employees affected by inspections ................... 11,296
Consultation Program
The state of Kansas has
a contract with the federal Occupational SHARP Awards
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) In conjunction with OSHA, ISH administers the
which allows our ISH employees to provide Safety and Health Achievement Recognition
a free consultation service to employers. The Program (SHARP). The program provides
consultation program provides assistance to incentives and support to small, high-hazard
employers by helping them recognize, evaluate, employers to work with their employees to
and control hazards in the workplace. develop, implement, and continuously improve
the effectiveness of their workplace safety and
The program is offered on a voluntary basis, health programs. It assists small employers
without citations or penalties. All information is in complying with OSHA standards without
confidential. In the last evaluation period, ISH assessing penalties or citations. In 2003, there
performed 1,278 consultations. were four companies that received the SHARP
designation.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Cost Saving Measures
at a time. Staff was then trained on how to use centers more usable by job seekers with
the Web site. A post test indicated most staff felt disabilities. Staff was trained on what the
more comfortable working with job seekers with technology does and where information on the
disabilities after they had reviewed the Web site Disability Resources Web site could be found
than they had prior to reviewing the Web site. about who needs what type of technology and
The Web site launched in September 2003 and how to use the technology.
had more than 32,600 hits by December 2003.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Agency Highlights
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will provide training and supportive services completing our satisfaction survey. KDHR
for eligible co-enrolled clients and businesses operates the only free wheat harvest matching
will be reimbursed for their extraordinary service for farmers and custom wheat cutters
training costs. The training will utilize the State
in the nation. Each year several temporary
Apprenticeship program to both assist in the offices are established in specific areas of the
development of the training curriculum and state to operate for the duration of the harvest
to certify programs under the apprenticeship and close as harvest activities move into other
model. areas. KDHR depends on a combination of
local public and private funds to support this
Older Worker Awards service. Local businesses or
In September 2003, government agencies supply
KDHR and the Kansas Employment and Training office space and utilities,
Department on Aging Local Workforce while KDHR provides the
hosted the Seventh Investment Areas personnel and pays the
Annual Older Worker telephone costs.
and Employer Awards LWIA I LWIA III
Ceremony. Nearly 150 Salina Kansas City Employer Center
people attended the event Hutchinson Leavenworth An Employer Center opened
to recognize older workers Garden City Olathe in October 2003 at the
in Kansas and their Hays Overland Park Topeka Workforce Center.
employers. Positive media Great Bend Employers can recruit new
coverage was generated LWIA IV employees, find information
in the Topeka Capital- LWIA II Wichita on state and local workforce
Journal, Wichita Eagle, Topeka El Dorado development programs
Lawrence Journal-World, Manhattan Winfield and provide company
the Kansas City Kansan Lawrence information to prospective
and many others. Junction City LWIA V employees. Employer
Atchison Emporia centers will be created in
Older Worker Pittsburg other workforce centers in
Placements Chanute the state during 2004.
During Program Year Independence
2003 (PY 2003) which Performance Measures
ended June 30, 2003, the During the last program
Older Kansans Employment Program placed year, the LWIAs received performance awards
1,103 seniors into full-time or part-time private for meeting and exceeding WIA performance
sector employment. The estimated economic standards. The performance awards are
impact of annual wages paid to individuals financial incentives based on each area’s
placed into part-time or full-time jobs by OKEP is level of performance. The higher the level of
$10,544,327. performance, the greater the financial incentive.
Performance awards were given to the Local
Wheat Harvest Program Workforce Investment Boards for the further
The Wheat Harvest program was a success development of the WIA One Stops, and for
in 2003 and rated “excellent” by customers Continuous Improvement grants.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Advisory Groups
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
Internal News
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Kansas Department of Human Resources — Actual Expenditures FY 2003
Actual Expenditures Percent
FY 2003
KDHR $565,184,366 100.00%
Other Funds:
America’s Job Link Alliance ................................................. 1,749,928 .................................0.31%
Special Wage Clearing.............................................................. 74,472 .................................0.01%
Penalty and Interest Funds ..................................................... 764,885 .................................0.14%
Federal Indirect Offset Fund ................................................... 304,013 .................................0.05%
Miscellaneous Funds ........................................................... 2,707,535 .................................0.48%
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