RTWMatters team | Return To Work Matters partners with Dr Natasha Kiso to deliver supervisor training.
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Glenn Pransky | Liberty Mutual Research Instutute for Safety
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Elizabeth Quinn | This case study looks at how involving and supporting the partner of an injured worker assists the RTW process.
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Antonia George | When a health insurer offers support after a potentially life-threatening diagnosis, Antonia agrees to learn how to self-manage her chronic condition. Does the coaching provide value for money?
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Gabrielle Lis | We compare Australian workers' comp / RTW websites. First up: NSW, WA, and SA.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Jack of all trades? Conjurer of motivation and modified duties? Piggy in the middle? We lay it all out on the table...
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Kevin Jones | Want to deal with presenteeism properly?
Know what you're dealing with.
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Kevin Jones | Unsure about best practices in RTW? Shaw isn't. The US expert lends his voice of authority to a discussion of fast, effective RTW.
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Kevin Jones | Lessons gained from a room of RTW Coordinators include making sure the role is more than just an add-on - read on for more!
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Gabrielle Lis | Feel like you've hit a brick wall? Practical tips to help you chisel away at it...
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Missing the zing in your step? Here's some help to refresh at work and steps to getting in the work groove.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Workers' comp is a tough gig - tougher still when you're looking after a company covering almost all of Queensland. What helps? Read on to find out.
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Gabrielle Lis | At 10 000 steps a day, healthy creativity goes a LONG way...
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Work can't stop when results improve. In this interview with an Injury Management specialist, we learn that creating the right RTW culture needs to be a continuous process - or else everyone pays.
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Gabrielle Lis and Dr Mary Wyatt | "Bad medicine" delaying RTW at your organisation? Our latest top ten will help sweeten your relationship with medical practitioners...
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is moving in a positive direction, with new guidelines to help employees on long-term sickness absence return to work.
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Paul Eastman | Intuition Software's Paul Eastman gets technical, explaining the ins and outs of an underused resource - workers comp software.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | According to a new study to emerge from the UK, employers are squandering their workers' talents.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Dutch occupational physician Frederieke Schaafsma describes a new Netherlands system of return to work that has seen the number of employees on long-term sick leave dramatically reduced.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | 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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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | ACTU's national workers' compensation officer Jarrod Moran spoke at February's National Workers' Compensation Summit on 'Unions, workers' compensation and the way forward'.
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Gabrielle Lis | What do injured workers want from their insurers? According to the 11th RTW Monitor, a good attitude goes a long way - and Queensland shows us just how far.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | After return to work coordinators expressed to us a lack of formal guidance in their role as coordinators, and - more specifically - the lack of a Code of Ethics - we set about developing one.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | While others got excited about the Oscars, RTW Matters got wound up about the host of interesting speakers at this years Workers' Compensation Summit.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Project Officer of the Nurses Return to Work in Hospitals Project, Julia Suban, talks about the particular barriers to return to work in nursing, and just how she hopes they can be overcome.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Occupational Physiotherapist Dr Andrew Fischer is part of a pilot program designed to improve return to work outcomes for patients.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | What's the best way to deal with stress in the workplace? Prevent it from ever occurring! Our ten tips show you how.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Dr William Shaw takes us behind the (research) scenes at Liberty Mutual in the US.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | What does "evidence based medicine" refer to exactly, and why should we care to know?
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Take this test to see if you or your employees are feeling how they ought to in the workplace. The test highlights the key factors in retaining star staff-members.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | In the second part of RTW Matters' interview with Occupational Therapist Kate Roylance, she discusses the counter-productive nature of many performance rewards.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | 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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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Returning to work is good for your health, and in the UK there is a collective voice that agrees.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Communication between GPs and occupational health professionals
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Sarah Duffield | An investment in occupational health, safety and welfare has paid dividends for a South Australian tuna farm.
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Gabrielle Lis | Gabrielle Lis joins RTWMatters from the beach at Wilson's Prom
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | In an interview with Wolfgang Zimmermann, Executive Director of NIDMAR, we learn the story of his special return to work, and hear how he's made a career out of helping others to do the same.
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Sarah Duffield | The most tenuous relationships between a worker and their rehabilitation consultant are often those between a young female consultant and a middle aged male worker.
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Sarah Duffield | For employers looking to increase productivity and reduce sick days, a workplace wellness program could be the answer.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Associate Professor Greg Murphy on rehab policy, RTW after spinal injury and rehab in rural communities.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | An interview with the Australian Rehabilitation Providers Association's Jane Monk.
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Sarah Duffield | Introducing an elite sports model of injury prevention and management into the workplace is the key to reducing the frequency and severity of workplace injuries.
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Sarah Duffield | What does it take to win an award in the challenging environment of complex injury management? One award winning provider gives us his tips and advice.
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Sarah Duffield | Hear from two return to work and rehabilitation experts with tips to help the rehab and RTW process.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | October is Depressional and Anxiety Awareness month. RTW Matters speak with Clare Shann from beyondblue, the national depression initiative, about returning to work after depression.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Since the earliest days of rehabilitation, the focus on return to work of injured clients has gradually declined . Today, the terms rehabilitation and vocational rehabilitation are no longer synonymous. The downside of this has been lowered vocational ou
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Even if they want to it doesn't mean they can, even if they can it doesn't mean they will.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | The Boston College Centre for Work and Family has revealed that 70% of managers felt that productivity had been improved in those workplaces which had a good life balance.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | The second half of Dr Dhir's doctor-patient communication insights.
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Sarah Duffield | Prior to the onset of an injury a worker may often display a number of yellow flags, or warning signs, indicative of the injury occurring.
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Andrea Thompson | In order to be truly engaged and contributing fully at work, there needs to be a work-life balance
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News Hound | The first half of RTW Matter's interview with Dr Hari Dhir.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Survival to revival - energising rehabilitation. This is the name The Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors has given it's 2008 National Conference, to be held 10 September.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Poetry, soccer and split infinitives.
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Joy Hewitt | RTW Matters reasearch and features writer.
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Sarah Duffield | RTW Matters Senior Writer.
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Ermine Despicio | Yes... but let's have a bit of fun while we're doing it.
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Robert Hughes | Self effacing, warm, always positive - Mary Wyatt is a consumate professional dedicated to return to work.
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Robert Hughes | RTW Matters' policy on humour.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | WorkCover improvements would benefit patients, practitioners, employers and the community.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | Qualified assessors the key to determining disability pension eligibility.
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Anna Kelsey-Sugg | The way we think and process information can lead to avoidable errors.
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