Articles tagged under ‘RTW Management Overview’

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• Webinar recording: Employers - The biggest influencers in RTW

  Dr Wyatt discusses the lessons for employers from Return to Work Survey findings

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• How Dr Wyatt analysed the National Return to Work Survey

  In which we introduce the National Return to Work Survey, describe how Dr Wyatt has analysed the results of the 2013 and 2014 surveys, and draw attention to the difference between correlation and causation.

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• Disputes: at what cost?

  If an employee is suspected of 'gaming the system,' is it worth investigating the matter further and entering into a dispute? We take a look at the costs involved.

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• Better Workplace Systems: how to implement them

  This article takes you through some effective ways of making sure that your workplace systems are in order.

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• Injury Management Policy: sample

  Are injury management policies a mystery to you? This template should help.

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• Injury Management: how to create your policy

  An injury management policy provides broad guidelines on the company’s approach to injury management. It provides clear procedures, and lays out the foundation for dealing with injuries in the workplace.

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• RTW Systems - How does your workplace stack-up?

  Developing effective workplace systems can be challenging. It can also be difficult to know if they are working.

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• Exploring Injury Reporting Systems

  Early reporting can have a huge impact on RTW outcomes, so the system used should be well-suited to the purpose.

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• 2015 RTW Matters Reader Survey: Feedback

  This survey article looks at how you use the RTW Matters website. What's useful? How do you use the information? How can we improve the service?

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• Role Summary: Return to Work Coordinator

  Effective RTW coordinators play a vital role in injury management and prevention. It's neither a small role nor an easy one, and RTW co-ordinators shouldn't attempt to do it all.

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• What is an IME?

  IME stands for Independent Medical Examination. They are used for a variety of reasons, depending on the situation.

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• Role Summary: Senior Management

  Senior management provides leadership for the team and sets the tone for the rest of the organisation.

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• Fanol Isai: RTW in Aged Care

  Fanol Isai from Catholic Homes won the “Return to Work Coordinator Excellence” WorkSafe Victoria award in 2014.

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• Examining supervisor competencies and return to work

  Competencies supervisors need to affect positive RTW outcomes for workers suffering musculoskeletal conditions and mental health conditions.

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• Case study: everyone has a role to play

  Employers and supervisors are key components of the return to work process. Without their support, a return to work program is unlikely to lead to a successful outcome.

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• When disaster strikes

  The support offered to a worker with catastrophic injuries can be vital to the person's recovery.

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• Guidelines on shoulder rotator cuff problems

  Flow charts detailing shoulder pain treatment

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• Work and osteoarthritis of the knee

  A research based look at the evidence on work contribution to knee osteoarthritis

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• Team Building...literally - Part 2

  If an organisation has a workers' compensation function that needs to be managed in-house, how can you build the right team?

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• Team Building...literally - Part 1

  If an organisation has a workers' compensation function that needs to be managed in-house, how can you build the right team?

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• Are you a Manager, a Leader or both?

  We should no longer manage, we should lead...how many times have you heard that?

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• Bridge the gap

  The 'bridge' between a proactive Health and Safety focus and Workers Compensation claims is often managed ineffectively.

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• Who's going to save worker's compensation?

  Improving return to work rates means re-thinking leadership in the return to work system

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• Putting a price on trust

  Building social capital costs little but the potential benefits are priceless.

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• After the injury, there's more pain to come

  Injured workers are being further harmed by Australian compensation systems, according to an article by Robert Guthrie and Stephen Monterosso

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• Broken trust cripples the compensation system

  Workers' compensation is plagued by low trust levels - increasing goodwill in the system could boost return to work rates.

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• Recorded Webinar: Designing an effective on-site injury treatment program

  In this webinar, James Murray, Director Soft Tissue centre, will provide tips and real life examples of how to develop an on-site treatment program.

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• Katherine Lippel: talks workers' compensation systems

  Professor Katherine Lippel presents: Workers' compensation design: how rules and practices may promote or undermine successful return to work

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• Y'all come back now, y'hear?

  Whether you're in OZ or the good ol' US of A, RTW is all about the love...

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• The Principles underlying Return To Work

  One should not only consider 'principles' in establishing a quality RTW process. 'Attitudes' are also of vital importance.

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• Principles underlying RTW - Draft 3

  Love that worker!

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• OHS and Return-To-Work

  On developing a good relationship with OHS Managers.

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• RTW success sounds like this

  Have a look at this letter from an employee of one workplace doing fantastic things for injured workers and their RTW

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• SuperDoc (1) - On not treating doctors as the Great Decider

  Better than a blog - it's a monologue! Not the Great Decider, who is this guy?

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• Case Study: Re-training for a better future

  Encouraging an injured worker to retrain and undertake self-management strategies could save millions in compensation costs.

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• The three Rs of recovery

  The impact of Resilience, Responsibility and Readiness

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• Demystifying emotional intelligence

  EI and its practical application for RTW outcomes

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• 8 steps for tackling long-term cases - Part 1

  Picking up a long-term case for the first time can seem daunting. Here are a series of steps to help you structure your approach.

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• Building your RTW toolkit

  Joanne Taranto explains how a RTW toolkit will expand your resources and get better results.

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• Getting RTW buy-in

  Seasoned return to work professional Joanne Taranto explains the basis of a great RTW program.

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• Supervisors apathetic about RTW?

  Six apathy-busting tips for when supervisors just don't seem to care about managing RTW.

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• Premium troubles?

  We chat to Michael Simpson from OccCorp about how you can reduce your premium AND meet your obligations to workers.

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• Run off your feet?

  RTW Coordinators who manage time well do better. What are the secrets to good time management?

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• Rehab Providers a mystery to you?

  This Q&A for employers covers the Who, What, When and How of Rehabilitation Providers

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• "W_T_F is workers' comp?!" Part 4

  Part 4 - Return to work, return to normal

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• "W_T_F is workers' comp?!" Part 3

  Small Business series - Attitudes and People handling.

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• "W_T_F is workers' comp?!" Part 2

  Small Business series Part 2: The nuts and bolts.

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• "W_T_F is workers' comp? Part 1"

  Small Business series

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• Disability management pegged: Part 3

  Iron out problems by taking action

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• Disability management pegged: Part 2

  Identify "dirty" laundry and take it to the cleaners

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• Disability management pegged: Part 1

  You don't have to hang anybody out to dry to get your systems pegged. Instead, make plans and make friends.

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• Eight RTW mantras to get you through

  Hand-selected return to work mantras to help your RTW experience run more smoothly.

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• 6 simple apathy busters

  Supervisors apathetic about RTW? You gotta bust that apathy ASAP!

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• Diamond discovered while down in the dumps about return to work.

  A new UK report finds that RTW depression is widespread, even when physical illness is the reason for work absence. Employers can make a difference.

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• Early intervention and good communication: everyone's responsibilities. The top points from the Dr William Shaw interview.

  Take a look at the ten main points to emerge from RTW Matters' interview with Dr William Shaw from the US's Centre for Disability Research, Liberty Mutual.

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• A sneak peak at some ground-breaking research

  Dr William Shaw takes us behind the (research) scenes at Liberty Mutual in the US.

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• Finding the middle ground

  Occupational therapist Kate Roylance was very surprised that many of you responded that "Workplaces are too generous" in the our RTW Matters poll; we interviewed her to find out why.

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• Our top ten tips to improve RTW outcomes

  A back to the basics look at getting it right from the beginning

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• What is vocational rehabilitation?

  Let's go back a few steps now, and take a look at how we can define the concept.

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• Good RTW calls for a unified and holistic approach

  Hear from two return to work and rehabilitation experts with tips to help the rehab and RTW process.

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• Complacency in return to work programs does not produce good outcomes

  An injured worker, with knee injuries and heart condition, is made redundant and has to deal with the concern that no other employer will take him on.

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• Proactive management is crucial for anxious injured workers

  A machine operator who already has minimal work restrictions experiences another injury, this time resulting in ongoing soreness, coupled with anxiety and distress. The result is an extended duration of restricted duties.

Archived Articles 1 - 15 of 15

• Deirdre Francis: RTW in the police force

  Deirdre Francis discusses some of the challenges of RTW in the Victorian police force.

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• Return to Work Support Profile - Victoria

  This is the first in a series of articles examining resources available to Return to Work Coordinators in 2011 across various jurisdictions. To kick things off, we take a look at WorkSafe Victoria's Return to Work Division.

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• We chat with Q-Comp Return to Work unit manager Sonia Minniecon about return to work initiatives in Queensland.

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• Trust and WorkSafe

  Reaction to return to work approaches in Victoria

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• How Victoria Police put a stop to poor performance

  One strategy improved Vic Police's poor workers' comp results - getting to know it could help your workplace too.

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• RTW Matters summer reading package

  We bring you a collection of our best tips for even better RTW in 2012.

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• And the biggest RTW challenge is...

  RTW Coordinators nominate the top RTW challenges faced by employers, workers and treating practitioners

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• Disability doesn't prevent RTW

  The considerable abilities of disabled workers are often overlooked when all the workplace needs is a "tweak"

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• Going back to your own workplace is going down, down, down

  Over the last 11 years, the rate of return to the pre-injury employer has been in decline. Last year, the rate of return to same duties also hit a new low. What's going on?

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• RTW performance VS funding performance

  Do scheme funding improvements necessarily lead to improvements in RTW rates and duration?

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• Pilot program puts the "occupational" into "physiotherapy" - and shows results

  Occupational Physiotherapist Dr Andrew Fischer is part of a pilot program designed to improve return to work outcomes for patients.

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• UK's what, who and why of vocational rehab

  A look at the UK College of Occupational Therapists' new paper, "Vocational rehabilitation: what is it, who can deliver it and who pays?"

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• Plentiful pay-offs: training RTW coordinators

  Teresa Coffey is a manager with Nabenet, training in the area of RTW. She speaks from experience and has lots of good advice to offer.

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• LaTrobe University's Greg Murphy talks to RTW Matters

  Associate Professor Greg Murphy on rehab policy, RTW after spinal injury and rehab in rural communities.

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• Towards a better WorkCover scheme in Victoria

  WorkCover improvements would benefit patients, practitioners, employers and the community.

Research 1 - 4 of 4

• The association between social functioning, relationships, receiving compensation and RTW

  Understanding the factors that influence return to work assists in effective rehabilitation.

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• Research short: Do physician guidelines improve return to work rates?

  A Dutch study has shown that adherence to guidelines by physicians can help lead to earlier return to work outcomes.

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• Research short: Professional supervision for rehab providers

  A survey of rehabilitation and return to work managers in Queensland has led to calls for greater professional development through mentoring and supervision.

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• Epidemiology for Beginners

  Introducing the basics and explaining the terminology