Articles tagged under ‘RTW Management Overview’

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• Extinguishing barriers — Practical options to support firefighters’ recovery

  Firefighters risk their lives for the community. With a few practical adjustments, the compensation system could do even more to support their recovery and well-being.

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• A new guide to support medical practitioners in the workers' comp system

  WorkCover WA has a new guide to help medical practitioners navigate the workers' comp and injury management system.

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• Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service’s prescription for injury management success

  Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service (GCHHS) has enhanced its RTW outcomes and reduced its workers' comp premiums through innovative strategies, leadership engagement and a commitment to continuous improvement.

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• A successful RTW pilot takes flight

  After a highly successful pilot program to help people get back to work, Comcare is offering the Return to Work Brokerage service for eligible workers with a current Comcare claim.

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• Do you know how to develop a return to work plan?

  Research shows workers have poorer health outcomes if they are away from work for a long time. A new guide has practical advice and an easy-to-use template to help you plan and implement a successful return to work for an injured or ill worker.

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• Work-focused health care: practical suggestions for how to do it

  Practical suggestions for how physiotherapists and other healthcare practitioners can provide ‘work focused healthcare’ to help the worker and the workplace.

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• How is Australia tracking in RTW?

  A quick look at return to work data released by Safe Work Australia in 2019

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• Too tough, too scared, too busy

  A quarter of construction workers don’t report injuries. Why - and what are the consequences?

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• Hungry to improve RTW?

  The researchers at the Insurance Work and Health Group at Monash University are offering a fantastic professional development opportunity: a two-day course on Return to Work: Evidence and Innovation

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• What matters about RTWMatters?

  RTWMatters is Australia’s leading independent resource for return to work professionals: informative, practical, motivating. Learn what we do, why it matters and who’s responsible for the wisdom and wit our subscribers value.

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• Six steps to good governance in RTW

  Ever looked at someone else’s injury management results and thought: I want what they’ve got? Here’s how RTW coordinators, supervisors, senior managers and the Board of Directors interact to get it done at high-performing organisations.

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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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• Comparing the data: physical and psychological claims

  Dr Wyatt dug into the data on the outcomes and experiences of Australian workers who lodge claims for physical and psychological injury. This overview reveals similarities but as ever the devil is in the details...

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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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• Template Injury Management Policy

  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 and mental health conditions.

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• 7 Tips for getting the best out of your rehabilitation provider

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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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• Return to work initiatives

  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 - 7 of 7

• Predicting RTW success for workers with chronic low back pain

  Helping workers with low back pain return to work means focusing on psychological factors, health behaviours and workplace characteristics as well as their physical condition.

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• How employers are improving RTW for public safety workers after trauma

  Employers face challenges when supporting workers in public safety occupations to RTW after a work-related post-traumatic stress injury. But many are taking proactive steps to improve RTW outcomes.

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• Are there RTW differences for workers with psychological and musculoskeletal injuries?

  How different are the RTW experiences of workers with work-related psychological injuries and those with musculoskeletal injuries? And what can make these experiences more equal?

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• What does a thriving social life have to do with RTW?

  Researchers looking for factors associated with early RTW uncover the usual suspects, as well as a less-expected ally: the social butterfly!

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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