Safety Compliance

To support and underscore the importance of districts to follow policies established by NCSIG and to comply with all governmental safety and health regulations and laws, NCSIG has adopted the following:

If NCSIG staff notifies a district* of a condition that is either:

• Immediate – needs to be corrected that represents a significant life-threatening danger requiring immediate attention or
• High – an exposure that, if not corrected, has the potential to result in a severe property or liability loss in the short term

And that district fails to make the correction(s), the following will occur:

• If a claim occurs resulting from the documented exposure the district’s Member Retained Limit (MRL) will be $25,000, instead of $1,000
• The district’s non-compliance will be brought forward first to the Risk Management Committee and then to the Board to review whether the district shall remain in the NCSIG pool 

The district will be advised of the pending action and will be invited to attend the meeting(s) to provide input into the Committee’s and Board’s discussion.

*The site administrator will first be contacted.  If the condition is not corrected the district superintendent will be contacted.  If the condition is still not corrected the board president will be notified of the condition.

These hazards should be corrected as soon as possible, but no later than three months from the covered party’s date of knowledge. Photographs of these hazards must be included in the report.

3. Medium Priority: exposures that, while having the potential for a loss, would not normally result in a significant or severe one. These recommendations are intended for the covered party to address as part of their longer term planning, as resources are made available, but no later than one year from the date of knowledge.
4. Low Priority: exposures that are commonplace throughout the covered party’s district, primarily compliance-related or a result of the lack of resources to correct. Covered parties could possibly accept these hazards in the short to mid-term, but should make their correction a longer-term goal.