Robert Elliott is an executive vice president with Amaxx Risks Solutions, Inc. Over the past 20 years, he has worked successfully with many industries reducing Workers’ Compensation costs, such as airlines, health care, manufacturing, printing/publishing, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality and many other industries and organizations. Contact him at Robert_Elliott@ReduceYourWorkersComp.com
4 Corporate Tips & 3 Job Bank Suggestions to Return Injured Workers to Work the RIGHT way
One basic way to avoid extravagant workers’ compensation costs is to get your employee back to work. Due to an injury, however, it is possible they may not be able to perform the same job as before or can still do it, but with some modifications.
We call these modifications “transitional duties.” This gets your employee back to work, earning a paycheck and not sitting at home taking in workers’ comp checks and becoming psychologically used to not working. Keep in mind, employees need to be cleared by a medical doctor as being fit to perform the assigned transitional duty job. The idea of TD is to “transition” the injured worker into a modified or light duty job, as healing continues toward the day when the worker will resume normal job duties.
4 Corporate Tips
Adopt a corporate-wide Injury Management Transitional Duty Policy describing how transitional duty is implemented at your workplace including:
1. The length of transitional duty assignments. It is not smart to have open-end TD duty assignments. The TD needs to have a start and end date, specified before assignment of a TD position.
2. The circumstances under which employees will perform transitional duty.
3. Types of transitions duty offered.
4. The circumstances under which employs will be retuned to regular work.
3 Transitional Duty Job Bank Suggestions
1. Jobs or tasks indentified for use in your injury management transitional duty program.
2. Tasks should accommodate injuries of employees who are out of work due to a work-related injury.
3. Lastly, be sure to hold weekly meetings with injured employees to monitor progress and document return-to-work obstacles. (workersxzcompxzkit).
Do not use this information without independent verification. All state laws are different. Consult with your corporate legal counsel before implementing any cost containment programs.
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