Articles tagged under ‘Early intervention’

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• Have you called your psychological injury claimants?

  Delaying contact with workers who’ve claimed for psychological injury can delay return to work. This article outlines why, how and when to make *that* call.

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• Two-thirds of psychological claimants report no workplace contact

  New research shows Australian employers delay and even avoid contact with workers who make psychological injury claims, and finds an association with poor outcomes for return to work.

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• Webinar recording: Effective physical rehab

  The injured worker needs and deserves it.

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• Can you ‘teach’ workers to be more emotionally resilient?

  You may know someone like this at work: optimistic and resilient, they appear to bounce through challenges drawing on an internal strength that helps them work through problems they encounter at work.

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• Bus Wellness Guides 3: Ideas and Resources

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• Webinar recording: Physiotherapists and return to work

  This panel discussion explores physiotherapy strategic approaches to improve return to work and the worker's health outcomes.

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• Bus Wellness Guide 2: A guide for managers

  Managers and supervisors can have an enormous impact on employee health, wellness and safety. They monitor how well policies promote performance and productivity.

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• Bus Wellness Guide 1: advice for operators and leaders

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• Psychological Cases: developing a psychologically healthy workplace

  The workplace is a social environment. For many, this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of their job. For others, depending on the workplace, the negative impacts on their psychology can be enormous.

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• Speaking Up 3: Staff speaking up

  As an employee, it's often seen as easier to keep quiet, but the reality is that you need to speak up.

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• Speaking Up 2: Employers enabling open communication

  Many employees tend to be wary of communicating openly in the workplace, so what can employers do to help them to open up?

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• Prehabilitation: improving the results of surgery

  Prehabilitation is an approach to aid people recover from surgery and increase the likelihood of a good outcome.

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• Lifestyle Factors: Nutrition & RTW

  Absenteeism due to employee health costs Australian businesses around $7 billion annually and poor nutrition plays a large part in it.

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• Lifestyle Factors and RTW: Fitness

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics found that 71% of the Australian working population aren't getting enough exercise.

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• Medical treatment: the importance of early access

  Delayed access to medical treatment means delayed recovery.

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• Psychological Cases: prevention is better than the cure

  The workplace is a social environment. For many, this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of their job. For others, depending on the workplace, the negative impacts on their psychology can be enormous.

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• Orebro: the questionnaire you need to know about

  The Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (or OMPQ) used to be known as the Acute Back Pain Screening Questionnaire.

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• Workplace Nonchalance: who cares?

  Nonchalant employees are not unhappy. They're not disgruntled. They’re people who show up day after day and go through the motions.

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• Workplace Incivility: where are your manners?

  Incivility is being rude, discourteous and showing a lack of regard for others. The behaviour harms the target, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It may also occur in the cyberspace, such as not replying to email or sending terse emails.

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• Wellness: a whole of industry approach

  While the health and wellness concerns of the bus industry are similar to other industries across the transport area, their methodology may provide a useful template to the wider workplace community.

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• Learned Helplessness: in RTW

  'Learned helplessness' is the theory of behaviour in which a person forced to endure painful or unpleasant stimuli becomes either unwilling or unable to avoid subsequent situations.

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• Banishing Burnout: Strategies for a Constructive Engagement with Work

  Dr Michael Leiter, a professor at the Centre for Organisational Research and Development at Acadia University, offers strategies for enabling employees to constructively engage at work and avoid burnout.

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• Mental Health: developing an action plan for your workplace - part 1

  An estimated one in five employees will be impacted by a mental health condition at any one time in Australia.

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• Health and Wellness in the Workplace: how to promote it

  Every business wants to increase productivity and make money. Many businesses are, however, unaware of the benefits to their 'bottom line' finances, of investing in staff well-being.

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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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• Webinar Recording: Workplace conflict - Early action at the coal face

  Conflict is best dealt with early, and by those involved.

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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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• Role Summary: Supervisors

  While the employee has the greatest influence over return to work outcomes, supervisor input is not far behind. Supervisors can make an enormous difference to the success of an employee’s return to work.

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• Webinar Recording: Engaging others early - The art of influence in return to work

  Building influence without authority and how it can support personal injury management professionals.

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• Using telephonic case management for assessment and triage

  Telephonic methods can be used to assess the clinical and work participation needs of people with common health problems.

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• Recorded Webinar: Improving RTW Culture in the Workplace

  This webinar will explore the initiatives that ISS Facility Services' National Injury Assist Team have undertaken since their creation in October 2010 to help improve the RTW culture throughout their organisation.

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• The lowdown on lifting

  Dr Jos Verbeek talks about a review of research on training employees to lift to prevent back problems.

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• Stress and emotional resilience

  Ever wondered what RTW and sabre-toothed tigers have in common? Or why some people bounce back quicker than others from stressful situations?

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• What does research say about Early Intervention?

  In response to a member's question, we find that the early bird gets results.

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• Tired of workplace health wannabes?

  Every workplace has health champions and health underdogs. Motivating the latter can be a real challenge...

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• Musculoskeletal hazards: Why ticking the box gets a red cross

  Assessing risk isn't about ticks and crosses in a box. So why do Australian workplaces tend to rely on manual handling checklists?

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• Guide to injury reporting systems

  Improvements to injury reporting systems are one of the most cost effective ways to improve return to work outcomes.

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• Managing disaster compensation

  Richard Green, injury and claims manager with the CFA after Black Saturday, knows what to expect from disaster-exposed workers, and how to help them through.

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• Nice one, Mercedes!

  Missing out on early intervention puts an end to this cleaner's night job, but doesn't stop her from retraining for a satisfying new career.

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• Stigma and mental illness

  What is stigma? What are some consequences of stigma? How might stigma manifest in the workplace? And what can you do about it?

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• Dealing with diabetes

  Diabetes is Australia's fastest growing chronic disease and affects 7.5 per cent of the population. How can you accommodate diabetic workers? And can employers assist with prevention?

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• Common causes of workplace pain

  Understanding musculoskeletal pain will increase productivity and health.

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• Just how painful is injury reporting?

  Knowing when injury reports should be made and how they should be dealt with can reduce the pain and strain of the process...

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• Resolving long-term claims

  We profile a success story in identifying and dismantling non-medical barriers to RTW at Concord Hospital, NSW

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• How to tip the balance AWAY from claims for strains and sprains

  Practical tips for reducing musculoskeletal claims

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• What are the ingredients for success in RTW?

  Getting the right mix is never easy but hearing how other people have succeeded in return to work helps. A WorkSafe officer offers her advice.

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• Is work good for you? Professor Kim Burton explains the UK's changing answer

  In this interview with UK expert we learn that modern vocational rehabilitation is not about delivering an expensive service.

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• The Stress Series - Part 4

  Managing a stress claim

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• Staying off work - when is it unnecessary and why does it matter?

  Ensuring those who don't need to be away from work get back as soon as possible is best for all.

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• The importance of early return to productive and full time duties

  A worker has several months off work after experiencing acute back pain. Her eventual return to work was not successful, with frequent aggravation of symptoms resulting in inconsistent working hours and no return to her pre-injury duties after two years.

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• Ignoring a problem will only make it worse.

  A cleaner works through increasing pain levels for more than two years before reporting her difficulties. By this time she is unable to perform her pre-injury duties and is forced into a longer term rehabilitation program.

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• Employers can sort out liability issues simply by seeking sensible medical advice

  An admin officer developed acute back pain after several weeks of 'niggling' soreness. Questioning the work relatedness of the back pain doubled the costs.

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• Harnessing the power of information

  Sharing RTW information with workers creates connections and ensures consistency across diverse workplaces. This case study, from Scenic Rim Regional Council in QLD, shows you how to engage workers from induction onwards.

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• Positive steps towards a culture of collaboration in the UK

  Returning to work is good for your health, and in the UK there is a collective voice that agrees.

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• Research short: First contact

  Early contact with injured workers is good for RTW, right? Well, that depends! It's not so much what you do as how you do it.