On Giving Advice to People Who Are Coping with Disability / Impairment at Home or Work (US – Webility)
Advice on giving advice to an ill or injured person written by Dr Jennifer Christian. Covers 'getting back in the saddle', 'activity prescriptions' among other things.

Fact Sheets (Canada - Institute for Work & Health)
Factors that influence return to work. Summarizes facts from several papers and gives overview of the major issues involved in return to work

Returning to work. - The CentriX Method
A Canadian disability management and rehabilitation service company suggests an approach to understanding work related disability based on a worker's attitudes and beliefs about illness, injury and disability.

“You cannot solve the same problem with the same thinking that created It.” – Albert Einstein

First understand the thinking. The article then provides information on the 'Six Principles of Ethical Influence'

WORK & HEALTH (UK – Waddell and Burton)
Changing how we think about common health problems in healthcare, the workplace and in society. 'Work is generally good for health and well-being'Executive summary of publication changing how we think about common health problems in healthcare, the workplace and in society. 'Work is generally good for health and well-being'

Facilitators and Barriers to Return to Work: A Literature Review (Australia – ReturntoWorkSA)
Work disability and return-to-work are multi-determined outcomes that cannot be accurately predicted just from knowledge of the medical or physical dimensions of the injury or condition.

Managing sickness absence & return to work in small businesses
(UK – Health & Safety Executive)
A concise guide on how to help those off sick return to work.

Managing sickness absence and return to work (UK)
Developed as part of the UK Better Backs Campaign, contains useful info on managing workers with back problems.

Reducing Disability Days: Healing More Than The Injury (US – Dr Jennifer Christian, webility.md )
A comprehensive article about medically unnecessary disability and the interplay of the non medical features that result in lost productive time. The article describes these features and offers pointers to overcome them.

Are People with Disability at Risk at Work - A Review of the Evidence (Australia – Safety and Compensation Council)
This report shows that workers with a disability are not an increased occupational health and safety risk. Workers with a disability have on average, a lower number of OHS incidents and lower workers’ compensation costs. Contrary to common perceptions by employers that people with disability pose an increased OHS risk, this research shows that the opposite is true.

A Guide for Managing Return to Work
(Canada -Human Rights Commission)
An excellent 3 part guide. Part 1 Key Legal Principles. Part 2 Step-by-step Guidelines for Managing the Return to Work and Part 3 Case Studies contain universally useful information and handy tips for managing return to work.

Overview of the American guideline for the prevention of work disability (US – Dr Jennifer Christian)
By Lead Author Dr Jennifer Christian. The document addresses: The ill or injured individual’s personal adjustment (coping) process. The medical care process. The benefits administration process. The reasonable accommodation process under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Concepts of Rehabilitation for the Management of Common Health Problems (UK – Waddell & Burton)
'The stereotype of disability is a severe medical condition with objective evidence of disease and permanent physical or mental impairment.... In fact, most sickness absence and long-term incapacity for work and premature retirement on medical grounds are now caused by less severe conditions.' This report by Gordon Waddell and A Kim Burton for the Department for Work and Pensions, UK reviews the evidence and offers conclusion on the best rehabilitation approaches.

Off work sick and worried about your job? (UK – Health and Safety Executive)
Steps you can take to help your return to work. Useful PDF advises ill & injured workers of best practice to speed return to work.

Glossary of jargon words often used in medicine (UK - Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
A glossary of terms relating to epidemiology, clinical trials, statistics and health economics

Information for workers (Worksafe Victoria)
Information on roles within the claims process, ideas to assist the worker return to work and stay positive. 

The benefits of returning to work (Australia - Workcover Tasmania)
An information sheet on the importance of returning to work, and how employers and doctors can assist in the process, as well as how workers can help themselves. 

Computer access solutions (US – Ability Hub) Information about "adaptive technology," which makes computers accessible to those with disabilities.

Managing medical appointments (UK – Pain Concern) Seeing a doctor about pain? This article gives some information on how to get the most out of the consultation.

Key steps to getting back to work (Australia - Worksafe Victoria)
A basic step by step guide to getting back to work, along with links to further information for the worker on the steps involved. 

Employee resources (Australia - ResWorks)
The Return to Work Knowledge Base collection of easy to read research summaries with take home messages from the perspective of the employee. 

Dealing with pain
Chronic pain Australia site provides information for people experiencing acute (short term) or chronic (long term) pain.

Questions Are The Answer – Getting more involved with your health care (US – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
This site offers tips on how to get the most out of your health care, including preparing for appointments, building your own list of questions to ask and tips on preventing medical errors.

Having Surgery? What you need to know (US – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
Basic facts and questions to ask your doctor and your surgeon

Find Medical Information (Australia – myDr) Search tool for all Australian consumer information available on medications includes side effects.

Orthopod (US – Medical Multi Media Group)
Clear, accurate, understandable information about your orthopaedic condition. Includes patient guides and FAQ’s .

Glossary of workers’ compensation terms for injured workers (US)
Health Insite (Australia – Aust Government)
A-Z of health topics, conditions and diseases, health and wellbeing, life stage and events.

Better Health Channel (Australia -Victorian Government)
Information on all aspects of good health: fact sheets A-Z, medical dictionary, medicines guide and advice.

The winter fitness survival guide (Australia - ABC)
ABC Health & Wellbeing guide to outdoor and indoor exercises, at home exercises, and staying motivated.

Walking for good health (Australia – Better Health Channel)
Physical activity does not have to be vigorous or done for long periods in order to improve your health.

Return to Work is good medicine (Canada – WorkSafe BC)
Written for Physicians this document provides concise background information on return to work. Focuses on 'return to work as good medicine' and 'work as therapy'. WorkSafe, British Columbia

Advising patients about work (UK – Working for Health)
GPs are in a unique position to provide patients with evidence-based advice about work. A concise summary of the most important evidence-based advice GPs can offer.

Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed (US - ACOEM)
Guidelines for practitioners and recommendations on the Stay at Work / Return to work process.

Online physician education and training services to prevent work disability (US - Webility)
A US internet-based accredited medical education (CME) for physicians and other clinicians on the topic of disability prevention, mitigation and management.

An occupational physician answers questions on return to work (US – Dr Jennifer Christian)
Advice for patients who are coping with illness, injury or impairment.

Outcome Measures (Australia – Transport Accident Commission)
Tools that measure change in meaningful areas of a person’s life in a way that informs collaborative decisions about treatment.

OH Guidelines (UK - NHS Health at Work)
Excellent collection of evidence based guidelines e.g upper limb disorders, work in pregnancy, dermatitis

Clinical framework for the delivery of health services to injured workers (Australia – WorkSafe Victoria)
Guiding principles for the provision of health services to workers with a work related condition.

Returning to work after an injury (Australia - RACGP)
An article from The Australian Family Physician publication, providing guiding principles for the assessment and early treatment phase of injury, focussing on rehabilitation and return to work.

Managing sickness absence & return to work
(UK – Health & Safety Executive)
Index page to a site offering toolkits, case studies and guidance on managing return to work.

Injury Management System Template (WA – Australia) Helpful guide to the development of an in-house injury management system.

Worker's Compensation Programs: Attitudes & Behaviours (US – Bill Gilmour, Risk Management Society)
The simple things do not cost much, like taking a just-injured worker to the doctor's office, periodically calling injured employees to check on their condition, or sending cards or flowers to let them know they are missed.

Workplace-based Return-To-Work Interventions (Canada – Institute for Work & Health)
An evidence based review of the literature which includes results and recommendations. 'We are now confident in sharing evidence-based knowledge about “what works” in RTW and under what conditions.

What works at work? (UK – Darcy Hill, Daniel Lucy, Claire Tyers, Laura James, Institute of Employment Studies)
Review of evidence assessing the effectiveness of workplace interventions to prevent and manage common health problems.

Is Work Good For Health and Well-Being? (UK – Waddell, Burton)
This extensive review of the research concludes there is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical and mental health and well-being.

Position statement: Realising the health benefits of work (Australia - AFOEM)
This consensus statement brings together Australasian and international evidence on the negative impact of long term work absence, to promote awareness and provide encouragement to employers to support their workers. 

Consequences of being off work (Australia - ResWorks)
The Return to Work Knowledge Base collection of easy to read research summaries with take home messages regarding the consequences of worklessness. 

Position statement on physical activity (Australia - AMA)
A statement on the importance and health effects of physical activity

Physical activity improves quality of life (USA - American Heart Association)
The AHA recommendations and listed benefits of implementing moderate exercise into your lifestyle. 

Weight Watchers Science Centre (Australia)
Explore the science of weight management and read about new findings so that you can make informed choices.

Exercise tips to improve your fitness and get ready for work (Canada - Cancer and Work)
While the benefits are many, physical activity can be a challenge for cancer survivors. This article provides tips on how to navigate these challenges. 

Physical inactivity and the risks to your health (Australia - The Conversation)
An interactive body map that brings together scientific evidence on the links between physical inactivity and disease. 

Encouraging physical activity - Five steps for GPs (Australia – Australian Family Physician)
A guide for GPs in their efforts to promote greater physical activity participation among their patients.

Indahl Interview (Norway – Aage Indahl interviewed by Mary Wyatt)
Norwegian physician Aage Indahl explains how he informs his patients about back pain, and encourages them to get active. This video provides key information for back pain patients, and has now resulted in major reduction in disability in a number of studies. Requires Quicktime

BackCare, The Charity for Healthier Backs (US)
Information for employees, employers, job seekers, line managers, healthcare providers plus case studies

Back In Work (UK – Health & Safety Executive)
Managing back pain in the workplace, a leaflet for employers and workers in small businesses

Back pain - Help yourself (Australia - ResWorks)
A free mobile phone app on iTunes that provides written information and videos to help those experiencing back pain to manage their condition. 

Managing acute-subacute low back pain (Australian Government)
Clinical guidelines for treaters of low back pain based on a systematic literature review.

Occupational Health Guidelines for the Management of Low Back Pain (UK – Waddell & Burton, Faculty of Occupational Medicine)
UK guidelines that focus on back pain and work, including prevention, management and work activities.

Guidelines for the evidence-informed primary care management of low back pain (Canada - National Pain Centre)
Recommendations systematically developed to assist practitioner and patient decisions about health care for low back pain. 

New Zealand Acute Low Back Pain Guide, Incorporating the Guide to Assessing Psychosocial Yellow Flags in Acute Low Back Pain (NZ – New Zealand Guidelines Group)
Provides a best practice approach and an overview of risk factors for long-term disability and work loss, and an outline of methods to assess these.

Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management (UK - NICE)
This guideline covers physical, psychological, pharmacological and surgical treatments to help people manage their low back pain. 

Non-specific lower back pain in adults (UK - Patient)
A comprehensive article that enables sufferers of lower back pain to understand their condition, providing information on its causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Low back pain guidelines (Australia - University of SA)
An evidence-based clinical guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy. 

Patient information sheets (UK - Sheffield Back Pain)
A collection of information sheets and leaflets for patients to download covering back pain, care and treatment, including sciatica.

Low back pain: clinical practice guidelines linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health from the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. (USA - AHRQ)
Guidelines that provide major recommendations and provides gradings on the strength of the evidence. 

Whiplash injury recovery (Australia - Queensland Government)
Based on clinical trials and research, this self help guide aims to aid the recovery of people with a whiplash injury.

Clinical guidelines for best practice management of acute and chronic whiplash-associated disorders (Australia - TRACsa)
Recommendations and treatment guidelines for optimal management of those experiencing acute or chronic neck pain following a vehicle collision or other accident. 

Australian clinical practice guidelines (Australian Government)
Guidelines and recommendations for the management of acute whiplash associated disorders for health professionals. 

Whiplash (Australia - Recover Injury Research Centre)
Information portal covering the diagnosis, symptoms and treatment of whiplash injuries. 

Occupational Health Toolkit – Musculoskeletal disorders (UK, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)
A comprehensive best practice toolkit drawn from worldwide resources – Glossary, Training, Prevention action, early intervention, rehabilitation.

Arthritis Australia
The peak arthritis organisation in Australia. Information, brochures and fact sheets, resources, clinical trials on arthritis

Arthritis Research  (UK)
Reports on rheumatic conditions intended to provide succinct and practical advice for general practitioners and hospital doctors about the diagnosis and management of common rheumatic conditions.

Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (Canada – National Occupational Health & Safety Resource)
What are they, how common are they, risk factors, how do they occur, symptoms, how to recognise and treat them, how to prevent them?

Improved evidence-based management of acute musculoskeletal pain (Australia – Jager and Ahern, Medical Journal of Australia)
Article on the Guidelines for the Evidence Based Management of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain by the National Health and Medical Research Council. How can we use the guidelines? Are the guidelines unique? How good is the evidence?

Evidence-based Management of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain (Australia – National Health and Medical Research Council)
Information on the management of acute pain, communication between clinicians and consumers, and the diagnosis, prognosis and interventions for acute low back, thoracic spine, neck, shoulder and anterior knee pain. The document is concerned only with the management of acute episodes of pain (less than 3 month’s duration) that are not associated with specific diseases and serious conditions.

Management of upper limb disorders and the biopsychosocial model (UK – Health and Safety Executive)
This review uses a best evidence synthesis to examine the evidence on management strategies for work-relevant upper limb disorders and establish the extent to which the biopsychosocial model can be applied.

The diagnosis and management of soft tissue knee injuries: internal derangements. (NZ – Guidelines Group)
Practical guideline for doctors, covering diagnosis, use of x-ray, management, referral, rehabilitation and post operative management.

Australian site providing information for people experiencing pain, as well those caring for them and health care professionals.

Position papers on pain
The Australian Pain Society has a series of evidence based position papers on the management of pain problems.

Pain Concern
A registered charity (UK) offering information and support for people who live with pain. We campaign on pain issues, provide a helpline for pain sufferers, a quarterly Pain Matters magazine, a forum and free leaflets to help people manage their pain

Acute pain management: scientific evidence (Aust/NZ - ANZCA)
The Faculty of Pain Medicine, provides guidelines for and principles of acute pain management. (2015)

Chronic pain (Australia - NPS Medicinewise)
An article that features definitions of chronic pain, discusses the role of opioids - the evidence, implications of tolerance, risks involved and possible complications. 

The Pain Disability Prevention Program (Canadian – PDP Program)
A program administered by Psychologists aimed at disability prevention in people who suffers persistent pain due to injury or illness. The program targets psychosocial risk factors for pain and disability and poses activity as a key to rehabilitation success.

Interventional Pain Management (New Zealand – Accident Compensation Corporation)
Evidence based recommendations on a wide range of procedures to help practitioners and patients make informed decisions about managing persistent pain.

Pain Educational Documents (Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists)
A resource produced for specialist pain doctors in training

Using opioids in general practice for chronic non-cancer pain (Australia - The Medical Journal of Australia)
An overview of the evidence available on frameworks for considering opioid prescription and ongoing use. 

Patient resources and fact sheets (Australia - Pain Australia)
A handy list of fact sheets, links to other online resources and videos to help patients understand and manage their pain. 

Chronic pain: A self help guide (UK - Mood Juice)
Information on understanding and managing pain for patients, includes goal setting and relaxation techniques.

Chronic Pain Management – Treatment Options (Anxiety Treatment Australia)
Overcoming anxiety, depression and anger, relaxation techniques, challenging negative thoughts and beliefs, distraction techniques, pacing techniques, where you can get help.

Chronic Pain (UK – Action of Pain)
Information on chronic pain, Pain Gate Theory, assessment tools, planning tools, medication. This information is free, but site also offers a fee based membership.

Key points for managing chronic pain (Australia - NPS Medicinewise)
Information, including a two part video, on effective management of chronic pain using a multidisciplinary approach

Opioid prescription in chronic pain conditions - Guidelines for SA GPs (Australia - SA Government)
Guidelines for GPs that encourage balance between addressing the treatment of pain, while minimising the risks involved. 

IASP Guidelines (International Association for the Study of Pain)
Links to guidelines including recommendations for treatment wait-times, pain treatment services and clinical guidelines in the field of pain. 

Patient education and resources (USA - American Academy of Pain Medicine)
Online videos and tools to help patients learn more about managing their pain.

Chronic Pain Australia
User-friendly, research-based information and support for those experiencing chronic pain, put together by volunteers who have experienced pain, as well as researchers and treaters.  

Understanding the employee’s perspective on return to work
RTW strategies at odds with the employee’s wants and needs are unlikely to be successful. Better to understand the employee’s situation and work with them to align your approaches

RTW Motivation - CentriX Disability Management
'People are always motivated for something.' Don't lament what appears to be an absence of motivation, instead ask yourself “What is this person motivated for?” This is the key to creating change. Includes a formula to explain what return to work motivation is comprised of. Suggests emotion and expectation are important.

Relapse prevention and goal setting.
A Skills for Healthy Living review of a study on how 'participants in a pain management program view achievement of goals' conducted by Guck et al at the University of Nebraska. 

Includes links to other articles on Relapse Prevention (link under 'high risk situations'), the rule violation effect, and the SMART goal schema. The study concludes that relapse prevention theory may be beneficial in some circumstances; goal-setting should be relevant to the participants; workers need to be taught to cope with facts that affect return to work goals that are external and uncontrollable.

Top 10 Ideas About What Employees Want From Work
Ideas to help you fulfil what people want from work and create employee motivation. This is an interesting page with useful information, some of which may be useful in RTW contexts.

Motivation is valuable in rehabilitation and return to work 
A review of a study on motivation in the work rehabilitation and planning process by Gard and Larsen at Lulea University of Technology Sweden. This article gives perspectives from the employee, employer, treater and insurer viewpoints. From rtwknowledge.org

Communicating With Difficult People
One of the greatest challenges for any manager is to handle resistance and difficult people with grace and professionalism. Don't argue, let then vent, repeat back what they say so they know you get it - from Deborah Mackin of The Sideroad website.

Five Ways to Influence Change in Others
Understand their perspective, acknowledge it, speak to their interests, recognise natural tendencies, be patient. 'People don't resist change, they resist being changed' – by Kevin Eikenberry - from the Sideroad website.

How to Handle Difficult People
Five choices for dealing with aggression, unsolicited advice, criticism or emotional blackmail. From counsellor Kevin FitzMaurice. Page also links to 25 Interpersonal Relational Styles – communicate better with insight into where individuals are coming from.

Team Development: The Four Stages of a Developing Team
Forming, storming, norming and performing.  A well-functioning team is always working on two objectives simultaneously: completing tasks and managing processes. When teams start to experience difficulty, it's typically because the tasks have moved ahead and the processes -- such as communication, role clarity, and decision making -- are breaking down.  By Deborah Macklin from The Sideroad.

Communication In Business: Why Bother Communicating?
Use succinct statements, set realistic goals, define priorities and payoffs, make performance expectations understandable, have receptive feedback systems. - useful 1 pager from Deborah Mackin of The Sideroad website.

Dealing with Difficult People Takes Practice
One page article offers a toolbox of advice on communication techniques by Patrick J Donadio, published on AutoInc.org – The American Automotive Service Association.

Improve Your Listening Skills Even When You Don't Want to Listen
Kevin Eikenberry lists the 7 'gets' to improve your listening when it’s hard to do so. Get: curious, a pen, focussed, over it, over yourself, space, practice.

Internal Communications: Identifying Missing Links in Your Systems
Questions to ask your team when it is important to improve communications by Deborah Macklin from The Sideroad

Negotiating Tips: The People Side of Negotiations
The application of 'power', the use of 'time' and the use of 'information'. 'Negotiation is often more about how we interact with people than having a logical, convincing argument' by Deborah Macklin from the Sideroad.

Workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems: evidence review and recommendations.  (US – National Guidelines Clearing House)
To provide evidence-based answers on mental ill health in the workplace. To assist managers, occupational health professionals and other interested parties in making management decisions and offering advice. To provide employers and occupational health professionals with information to prevent or limit mental health in their workplace, minimise sickness absence and enable workers who experience mental ill health to remain in work, restored to full productivity

Workplace Mental Health (US – Partnership for Mental Health)
Resources, profiles of innovative employer programs and programs, how to information on effective employer approaches to mental health.

Workplace Mental Health Resources (Australia - SuperFriend)
A list of evidence based guides providing simple, practical information to assist improving the mental health of workplaces. 

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (US – National Assoc of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do.

Getting Back To Work (Australia – Sane Australia)
Getting back to work when you have a mental illness can be a challenge. This fact sheet covers how to get started. Disclosing illness to an employer. What you can do to stay at work.

Mental Health Foundation (UK)
Resource site includes an A-Z of mental health, strategies and treatments, wide range of downloadable information booklets.

Reasonable adjustments for psychological injuries (Australia - Workplace Health & Safety Queenlsand)
A recorded webcast by Michael O'Hanlon from BeyondBlue on reasonable adjustments that employers can make to support a worker with a psychological injury. 

What is an Anxiety Disorder (Australia – beyondblue)
Types of anxiety disorders, signs and symptoms, risks, treatments, helping yourself, helping others

Beyondblue (Australia – The National Depression Initiative)
Aims to build a society that understands and responds to the personal and social impact of depression, works to prevent it, and improve the quality of life for every one affected.

The MoodGYM (Australia – Australian National University)
Online training program – for preventing depression. Why you feel the way you do, changing the way you think, changing 'warped' thoughts, knowing what makes you upset, assertiveness and interpersonal skills training.

Heads up (The Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance & Beyondblue)
Heads Up gives individuals and businesses free tools and resources to develop action plans and create mentally healthy workplaces. 

Report on the Value of a Screening Program for Depression (US – ACOEM)
Informational report on screening for depression together with recommendations.

Review of work stress
VicHealth’s in depth review of work stress assesses the impact of work stress on health, and explores ways of managing work stress.

Work-related stress: care and compensation (Australia - Medical Journal of Australia)
An article which addresses the complexity for medical practitioners when treating a patient with compensation claims for stress.

Work-related stress – good practice (UK – Health & Safety Executive)
Examples of policies and procedures, interventions to reduce stress, case studies

Preventing Work-Related Stress a guide for employers in the public sector and community services (Australia – WorkSafe Victoria)
This guide provides practical advice to help public sector workplaces understand their legal obligations for workplace consultation and the prevention of risks to psychological and physical health that arise from work-related stress.

Using humour to reduce workplace stress
The do’s and don’ts of workplace humour. Humour can help improve the workplace environment, but laughing with not at people is vital.

Best practice in rehabilitating employees following absence due to work-related stress (UK – Health & Safety Executive)
The emphasis of this research is on identifying specific examples of bestpractice following absence due to stress-related illness. This provides employers with information on different types of practices, and the evidence of their effectiveness.

Comparative Performance Monitoring Report Comparison of occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation schemes in Australia and New Zealand
A comprehensive comparison of occupational health and safety and workers’ compensation schemes in Australia and New Zealand. The report is prepared for the Workplace Relations Ministers’ Council and compares the performance of relevant jurisdictions and notes trends over time. An excellent resource.

The Legal Concept of Work-Related Injury and Disease in Australian OHS and Workers’ Compensation Systems
Written by a research team at the Australian National University, the paper explores the concept of work relatedness, a key threshold for ill or injured workers in many workers’ compensation systems.

Effective Disability Management and Return to Work Practices:
Rehabilitation and return to work policy review using back pain as the case study basis.

Determining What Constitutes An Occupational Disorder: Is the Horse Already Well Out of the Barn Door?
A Canadian paper exploring the complex area of work contribution in work illness and injuries and compensation.

National Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks – Productivity Commission report
2004 major review into the OH&S and compensation systems. The report explores injury management, factors that facilitate recovery and return to work, as well as policy approaches.

The Prevention of Occupational Injuries and Illness: The Role of Economic Incentives
Written by a research team at the Australian National University, the paper explores whether economic incentives such as the WorkCover premiums help prevent work injuries and work disability.

Historical Trends in the Epidemiology of Injury and Industrial Disease at the B.C. Worker's Compensation Board (1950-1996).
An interesting report highlighting the significant changes in work injury claims over fifty years. The report examines changes in claims as well as the changing nature of employment.

Workers’ compensation: Benefits, Coverage, and Costs, 2006
A comprehensive workers compensation report on US benefits and costs from The National Academy of Social Insurance. Written for businesses, journalists, policy makers, and consultants.

What’s Happening in Workers’ Compensation? National Academy of Social Insurance
Transcript of a 2006 conference meeting exploring “What’s happening in workers compensation?” in the US. Easy to read and informative.

2008 Oregon Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary
Provided for Oregon employers, but also includes a list of Workers’ compensation premium rate rankings for all US states.

Who returns to work and why? International Social Security Association Research Programme
Summarizes the outcome of a study comparing return to work across six countries – Denmark, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Sates. The paper analyses factors such as the duration of work absence, medical and vocational rehabilitation interventions, and labour market policies and practices.

A comparative review of workfare programs in the United States, Canada and Australia – Department for Work and Pensions UK
A review of government systems to assist people back to work through “work for benefit” programs.

Comparative Review of Workers’ Compensation Systems in Select Jurisdictions - Germany
Written in 1998, the review provides a rich source of information on the well respected German work injury and compensation system at that time.

Comparative Review of Workers’ Compensation Systems in Select Jurisdictions – New Zealand
Written in 1998, the review provides a rich source of information on the 24 hour coverage New Zealand work injury and compensation system at that time.

Comparative Review of Workers’ Compensation Systems in Select Jurisdictions – Sweden
Written in 1998, the review provides a rich source of information on the Swedish national insurance system at that time

Comparive Review of Workers’ Compensation Systems and Governance Models- Canada
Compares workers compensation and return to work systems in Canada, US, Australia NZ, Sweden and Germany.  Written for the Royal Commission on Workers’ Compensation, in British Columbia Canada, in 1998.

A Brief History of Workers' Compensation
Written for doctors who treat people with work injury, the article gives a background on workers’ compensation and how the current US system has come about.

A Brief History of Workers' Compensation in the US - Georgia

Workers' Compensation in Australia- Industry Commission Report 1994
A review of prevention, return to work, rehabilitation and compensation. Much of the recorded information remains relevant today. The review contains a historical review in Appendix F.

Case Management Society of America
US based association that provides resources and support for case managers. About 20% of case managers in the US are involved with work injury management and rehabilitation.   The organisation provides a range of training resources and seminars and conferences.

Case Management Society of Australia
Similar to the CMS of America

Training at Active Occupational Health Services
RTW Coordinator Training - Basic & advanced

Graduate Certificate in Service Coordination and Rehabilitation Postgraduate Diploma in Rehabilitation Studies
LaTrobe University courses that train professionals in rehabilitation concepts and practices. 

ASORC Accredited Courses
Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors list of accredited courses to enable a person become a qualified rehabilitation professional in some states.