We're Good for Business!
Located at 1200 E. Second St., Suite B, Franklin, the Chamber of Commerce serves retail, industry, non-profit organizations, small business, and entrepreneurs.

The Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce usually meets for lunch on the third Monday of the month. See the Calendar Page for lunch information. 

Non-members are encouraged to attend a meeting before joining. Monthly meetings focus on networking, a featured speaker, or a tour of a Chamber member facility.

Please "come as you are." Our meetings are casual and friendly.

Membership generally pays for itself with benefits and discounts. Benefits inlcude:

• monthly electronic newsletter
• weekly events e-mail for Chamber and Chamber-member events
• member mailing list
• monthly lunch meeting
• after-hours events
• opportunities to host meetings and after- hours events at your site
• advertising credit for Cox Ohio papers -- up to a $400 value
• access to workers' comp group rating plans through CompManagement and Hunter Consulting
• annual golf outing
• membership emblem
• biannual business expo
• 50% discount on all Workforce One seminars
• website listing and link to member site
• newsletter advertising opportunities
• annual meeting & awards
• regional collaboratives (tourism, economic development)
• Chamber-office brochure display

Make Connections
Networking is the best benefit of being a Chamber member! Get to know your fellow members and be astounded at the resources you have at a handshake.

Monthly Chamber meetings are usually the third Monday of each month at 11:45 a.m. Members are asked to RSVP by the prior Wednesday, and pay at the door or may be invoiced at a slightly higher cost. Speakers and networking are the focus. 

Road Show meetings are Chamber meetings hosted by Chamber members and are very popular. Meetings typically conclude by 1 p.m.

 
Download a Membership Application.

Contact Us:
The Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce
937-746-8457
chamber45005@gmail.com
P. O. Box 721,
Franklin, Ohio 45005

Visit our office at 1200 E. Second St., Suite B, Franklin.

Chamber membership pays for itself!
 
Get big-city benefits from your hometown Chamber!  The Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce is a member of the Southern Ohio Chamber Alliance or SOCA.  Benefits include:

• SOCA 2 from United Healthcare -- up to a 20% discount 
• Hunter Consulting Workers' Compensation Group Rating. See below for a messge from Hunter.
• Eye Med Vision Care and Hearing Aid Discounts (included with membership). Contact the office for the discount cards. 
• Superior Dental Insurance discount
• Prescription Drug discount (included with membership)
• Cintas Document Management/Shredding discount 

Download a benefits flier.

SOCA 2 is available from these Chamber members: Simpkins Insurance and Ralph E. Wade Insurance

Eye Med Vision Care is accepted by this Chamber member: Total Vision Centers

Superior Dental Insurance is available from these Chamber members: Insurance Associates, Simpkins Insurance, Ralph E. Wade Insurance

Superior Dental Insurance is accepted by this Chamber member: Family Dentistry, Inc.


Workers’ Compensation Corner

Save the Date: Ohio Safety Congress and Expo
Congress: March 27-29, 2012
Expo: March 28-29, 2012
Theme: Well at Home; Safe at Work
Registation: Opens now!




The Chamber is a group-rating sponsoring organization. Our repsonsibilities as a sponsoring organization are outlined in this letter. Responsibilities of the employer, BWC, and third part administators are noted as well.

Safety Talk: Employee Safety Orientations
By: Dan Stockwell  (BWC Publication)
No business organization can expect good safety performance unless its top management demonstrates that safety is a key organizational value.  A leader must communicate the need for safety to all employees.  Accountability is one of the key factors to commitment.  Every level of your organization needs to be accountable for its safety responsibilities.  Make safety orientations for new and transferred employees a part of your organization’s basic safety processes. 
Read more . . .

Safety Council Rebate Program
The Ohio BWC announced that the Safety Council Rebate Program will continue and will now allow group-rated employers to be eligible for the 2% Performance Bonus. Read the full press release.   

10-Step Business Plan for Safety: With BWC's 10-Step Business Plan for Safety employers can focus on implementing a more effective safety plan one step at a time as opposed to getting lost in the "where to start" phase of the big picture.  While some of the BWC programs require employers to complete the 10-Step Business Plan for Safety, it can also be a good resource for companies looking to implement a new safety program or simply improve an old one.  Please watch our monthly newsletters/website each month, as we will be highlighting each step.  If you are anxious to get started or simply can't wait for the next step to be released you can visit Hunter Consulting Company's website at www.hunterconsulting.com for the full plan outline.

An excerpt from Step 2: Employee Involvement and Recognition By the Ohio BWC Safety is a behavioral science not an engineering or technical science.  The vast majority of things that cause employees to get hurt are behavioral in nature.  Unfortunately, behavior is one of the hardest things to change, especially if employees have been allowed to develop bad habits.  These habits usually go unnoticed or unchanged until someone has had an accident.  Once this has happened we often try to determine blame, instead of finding the root cause.  Most of the time the causes are easy to see, if we only open our eyes and start observing why our employees do what they do.
 
Read more ....  

The Steps: Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 , Step 4, Step 5, Step 6, Step 7, Step 8, Step 9, and Step 10.
 
Safety Articles
Teaching Employees to Understand Material Safety Data Sheets
Hand Injury Prevention
Practice Safe Lifting & Save Your Back
Preventing Accidents Before They Happen
Why Employees Get Hurt
Bloodborne Pathogens
Because They Can
ABC's of Safety
7 Steps to Better Accident Investigations
A Passion for Safety
Applying the 5 Critical Tenets to Weight Loss
 
A Message from Hunter Consulting:
Do you understand Ohio Workers’ Compensation? With all the changes in recent years we thought it would be beneficial to make available, to Chamber members, an informative booklet that covers: important dates, definitions on worker comp terminology, BWC alternative programs and their description, samples of most common BWC forms with explanation of how and why they are used. Please call Tammy at 513-231-4023 ext. 114.