It’s easy to miss the beginning of the RTW process. While you might think that RTW starts when an employee actually returns to the workplace, it actually starts within the first five minutes of an injury.
This handbook explains the whole gamut of properly managing an injury to settlement of claims.
Experience has shown us that there’s a simple equation when it comes to returning people to work: Good systems = Good results.
While managing individual cases is important, the best way to promote good outcomes (while keeping your sanity and enjoying your job) is to have workplace systems that work.
Depression affects one in ten Australians in the workplace. It can affect the productivity of an employee, and may increase workers compensation costs.
An effective return to work program that manages depression in the workplace needs to be based on a good understanding of its causes, manifestations and effects.