Benefits Derived from Keeping Your Employees on the Job, 1993 Finishing and Converting Conference Proceedings

In almost every state of the union, business leaders, politicians, insurance professionals and concerned citizens are searching for new techniques to improve the current worker’s compensation system.

Meanwhile, the practice of productivity, returning injured workers to productivity as quickly and completely as possible, attracts little attention, even though the updated version of this practice continues to garner impressive results. Returning an injured worker to productivity can dramatically decrease direct and indirect costs of the injury as well as having a positive effect on the quality of life of the injured worker.

This presentation will address the cost effectiveness of early intervention as well as the process of designing and implementing a return to work program. The role of management and the treating physician, assessment of physical capabilities, strength testing, work hardening, documentation of physical demands of the job and administration procedures will be covered as part of the early intervention process.