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Dr Mary Wyatt explores the effects of communication on work-related injuries.
Corey Grandin, Andrea Willis & Dr Hanne M Watkins
This webinar discusses a guide that helps supervisors support and communicate with workers and...
When injured workers reflect on their workers' comp claims experience, it's how their claims...
A symptoms-based approach is a smart and humane way to make return to work decisions,...
Astrid Helene Kendrick, University of Calgary
Deep acting at work could be a protective factor for employees in challenging situations, but it...
Six powerful phrases that are heard too often, or not often enough, in the field of RTW and...
This webinar explores the nature and effects of workplace bullying and what factors help to...
Associate Professor Caroline Howe explains what icare's research into social connection tells...
WorkCover Queensland! But unlike the Olympics, we'll happily hand out more golds to others with...
Authority builds trust, a powerful persuasive tool. In our fifth article on persuasion and...
Being likeable also makes you persuasive. In our sixth article on persuasion, we explore the...
In this article on Donald Trump and the art of persuasion, we examine the way small commitments...
People want to be like other people, hence the persuasive heft of "social proof". In our third...
Actually, we don't believe you, Mr President! In the second in our series of articles on the...
Dispute resolution options in RTW and Industrial cases including a case study
3 key principles of communication you can start using immediately to speed up your RTW outcomes
The bad news: according to workers, positive interactions with insurers are few and far between....
When interactions with insurers are negative, workers’ compensation claimants describe serious...
Australian data shows that supervisors who are seen to promote physical and psychological...
In workers’ compensation systems across the world, injured workers describe predominantly...
Open communication in the workplace is sign of a positive workplace culture.
This webinar explores evidence on how supervisors and coworkers can influence RTW, and how to...
Conflict is best dealt with early, and by those involved.
An injured individual who feels supported and confident with work colleagues has a better return...
Families and friends play a vital part in the recovery of injured workers. They provide...
An aged care facility in Deventer in the Netherlands has found a creative solution to the...
Whilst psychological injury claims are less common that physical workplace injuries, they...
Occupational physiotherapy expert Paul Coburn explains the principles of good physiotherapy and...
We all know what happens to that which goes around (it comes around), so why do we sometimes...
When one part of the system underperforms, the others follow suit.
Trust is a key predictor of organisational success, says the Great Places to Work Institute....
SuperDoc reminisces about his time in the Courts and asks whether judges see the broader...
It's time to question whether some workers should be spared the compensation process.
Heather Millar, writer, WorkCover
After being badly injured in a car crash, family and colleagues rallied around to help Peter...
Sometimes a person's capacities exceed their own sense of what they can safely do. What is the...
There's no such thing as too many chefs in the problem-solving kitchen. Share for improved RTW.
Unresolved workplace conflict can prevent RTW, so RTW professionals need to know how to...
Assisting difficult RTW is even harder when the treating practitioner doesn't have all the...
Partnerships between doctors and the workplace are worth working on.