Logo for the 2024 Workers' Comp Risk Management Award for Excellence, which is a powerful way to recognize insureds for their commitment to workplace safety, return-to-work processes and other key features of exceptional workers' comp programs. The 2024 Workers' Comp Risk Management Award for Excellence is a powerful way to recognize insureds for their commitment to workplace safety, return-to-work processes and other key features of exceptional workers' comp programs.

To grow an award-winning workers' compensation risk management program, seed with a focused mission, water with innovation and attention to detail, and watch the results blossom through improved employee safety and insurance outcomes.

Such recipes for success are well-illustrated by the three winners of the 2024 Workers' Comp Risk Management Award for Excellence, mounted by PropertyCasualty360.com, its parent company ALM, and the Workers' Compensation Institute with support from Sedgwick and Safety National.

Consider Dairy Farmers of America, where a cohesive, synergistic workers' comp and risk management operation thrives because many hands come together for the good of injured employees. The cooperative's workers' comp program touches more than 10,000 farmers at nearly 5,500 farms nationwide along with about 19,000 employees working at dozens of different manufacturing facilities.

At The Cheesecake Factory, happy employees are part of the allure of hundreds of North American outposts that feed roughly 2,500 people a day. Company leaders want to keep workers smiling, and an approachable, streamlined workers' comp program is key to that mission.

A savvy, collaborative workers' comp program that was years in the making at Albertsons enabled that company to slash claim costs. Now company leaders are looking to leverage AI and process automation so that claims staff can spend less time on administrative duties and more time supporting injured workers.

All told, the stories behind the 2024 Workers' Comp Risk Management Award for Excellence illustrate how relationship-building, cultural preservation and a focus on wellness (both physical and fiscal) foster great businesses in the same way those elements infuse the best meals.

Click on the linked logos below to read each of the stories behind this year's award winners.

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