Certification Benefits

Certification provides a variety of benefits to PEOs, their workers’ compensation insurance carriers and their business clients:

PEOs

Certification provides a cost-effective way to help PEOs improve their risk management program to achieve the lowest possible workers’ compensation losses. Maintaining certification provides:

  • Method for insurers and clients to independently verify your PEO is performing best practices in this service area
  • Confirmation to your PEO’s management that your risk management team continues to adhere to best practices
  • Improved cash flow and profitability through reduced losses, lower WC loss picks and lower collateral and premiums
  • Increased sales and marketing advantages
  • Customized training for your PEO’s internal staff
  • Experienced PEO risk management consulting

PEO Clients

Certification helps the PEO industry give client business owners risk management services that add maximum value and provide:

  • Safest possible work environments for worksite employees
  • Independently verifiable method to determine if a PEO has the proven capability to deliver best-in-class risk management services
  • Assurance that the PEO will be implementing best practices proven in the insurance industry to effectively manage workers’ compensation losses

Insurers

Certification provides a reliable, cost-efficient way for insurance carriers to identify PEOs that are implementing proven risk management best practices. Confirming a PEO’s certification provides:

  • Fast and independently verified identification of PEOs that warrant full underwriting consideration
  • Ongoing monitoring that ensures PEOs are adhering to an approved plan of controllable growth within the carriers’ risk assessment parameters
  • Independent evidence that PEOs are consistently implementing proven best practices at client worksites as verified by one of CI’s experienced certified risk management professional