Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Training Reminder

This is a reminder to everyone that the Auditor of State Training is due by Tuesday, October 29. An email was sent out to all employees from the Office of Business and Finance. As a reminder, Ohio Senate Bill 91 recently amended Ohio Rev. Code 4113.52 to require all state employees, with few exceptions, to report alleged fraud, theft in office or misuse or misappropriation of public money to the state. House Bill 33 then amended Ohio Rev. Code 117.103 to require all state employees, which includes public university employees, to complete training on Ohio’s fraud-reporting system as directed by Ohio’s Auditor of State.

Per the Auditor of State’s guidance, all current Ohio State employees — including all university and medical center faculty, staff (regular, term, temporary, and intermittent), graduate associates, and student employees — must complete the training by October 29, 2024. New employees must complete the training within 30 days of their start date. The training must be documented by Ohio State and repeated every four years.

To ease distribution and facilitate compliance tracking and documentation, the university is delivering the required training in BuckeyeLearn. The BuckeyeLearn training, titled Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, is available now, which gives employees 30 days to comply with the state-mandated completion deadline of Oct. 29. This training is being automatically assigned to each existing employee and all new employees through their BuckeyeLearn transcript. This process should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.