Managing workers insurance and personal injury claims can be challenging, so we’ve developed four helpful videos to assist in understanding your role in implementing your organisation’s return to work plan and supporting a worker’s recovery and return to work.
Identifying suitable duties in the workplace
If your worker is unable to resume their full duties, your role as the employer is to provide suitable duties and to assist them to return to work.
Providing suitable duties is an effective way to support your worker with their recovery and rehabilitation as it keeps them active and engaged with the workplace. It also minimizes time off from work and can help protect your business against rising insurance premiums.
How to complete a Return to Work Plan
Offering suitable duties is an effective way to aid a worker’s recovery and rehabilitation, by keeping them active and involved in the workplace. This approach reduces their time away from work, helps maintain business productivity, and can help protect your business from increasing insurance premiums. Once suitable duties have been identified in consultation with the key stakeholders, it is important to document these in a return to work plan to ensure a safe, timely and sustainable return for the injured worker.
How to support an injured worker for improved outcomes
Prolonged absence from work can lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes for the injured worker. It can also impact your business with loss of productivity, lowered morale and potential increases to your workers compensation premium. Therefore, the sooner an injured worker can safely return to work, the better the outcomes will be for all.
Common return to work barriers
In most instances, a worker’s return to the workplace following an injury will be smooth and seamless. However, there may be occasions when return to work is delayed. This may be due to barriers from the worker, treatment provider or even the employer. There may even be concurrent barriers from multiple stakeholders. These barriers may be challenges or obstacles that can affect the worker’s recovery and ability to return to work.
