Articles tagged under ‘Training’

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• Leading safe recovery — The operational line manager's role in return to work

  This webinar series helps workplace leaders and managers understand their role in supporting injured workers' RTW. Led by occupational physician Dr Mary Wine and exercise physiologist Ria Mercado from the It Pays to Care team, the 6 modules cover practical strategies for early response, finding suitable duties, collaboration with healthcare providers and legal and leadership responsibilities. The series aims to give managers the tools and confidence to have meaningful conversations that can make a real difference to recovery outcomes while reducing stress for everyone involved.

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• Help drive better health for truckies

  Help us improve the health & wellbeing of truck drivers with a new program from the Driving Health Team at Monash University.

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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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• The research and analysis behind our new training package for supervisors

  Dr Wyatt describes the six years of research, reflection and experimentation that have gone into RTWMatters' new hybrid training package for supervisors.

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• Webinar recording: RTW Coordinators - The real 'Gatekeepers' of the RTW process

  An academic from the University of NSW shares insights from research that explores the best ways to select and train RTW Coordinators to ensure they excel at facilitating the return to work.

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• Reader Feedback: Tips on getting the most out of Return to Work Matters

  Our recent survey responses highlighted the number of ways that RTW Matters content is being used by those at the coalface and those who manage RTW teams.

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• We need an Industry Association, how about it?

  Let's get better organised - our response to a reader's request.

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• Other people's stress

  Are stress management programs for managers the key to reducing stress claim costs?

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• Communicating About Pain and Injury

  Effective communication is a vital skill in general, but comes into play especially when dealing with injured employees taking time off work. Knowing how to talk and actively listen can dramatically help the RTW process.

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• Difficult or long term cases

  How to deal with those cases that don't fit the usual template, and how to get those employees back to work.

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• Working on depression

  Depression can be an underappreciated yet significant condition in the workplace. Knowing how to recognise and deal with it can therefore be beneficial to both a worker's health and the company's.

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• Returning to Work and Reintegration

  How to go about bringing an employee back into their job fast and effectively.

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• Health Promotion and Wellness

  This course covers the importance of health promotion and its effects on productivity, in the context of implementing a health and wellbeing plan in the workplace.

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• Workplace Culture

  What is a good workplace culture? What effect does workplace culture have on injury and return to work? ...What even is workplace culture?

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• Disability policies, reporting systems and costs

  Reviewing the benefits of an efficient work disability policy and different injury reporting systems. Further, how costs of injury claims should/are managed, and how to detect trends in cost management.

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• Participatory Ergonomics and Ergonomic Principles

  Ergonomics in the workplace and its involvement with workplace injury

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• Setting Up a Workplace Disability Program

  This article outlines how to set up a program to deal with workplace disability, and the responsibilities of each member of the organisation in achieving quick and effective return to work.

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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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• Active listening eTool

  Don't just hear the words, listen to them. These five steps to becoming an active listener will help you build a better workplace.

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• Troubled employees

  Some Dos and Don'ts for dealing with troubled employees.

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• Train for success

  Workers expect more from supervisors than supervisors are prepared to give - but training can build a RTW bridge!

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• 6 simple apathy busters

  Supervisors apathetic about RTW? You gotta bust that apathy ASAP!

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• The human face of WorkCover: from truckie to carer

  Senior writer with WorkCover SA shares a great case study that shows RTW is always worth the hard work to get there.

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• What skills do I need as a RTW Coordinator?

  And how do I get those skills? Are they the same for Coordinators in companies of all sizes?

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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.

Archived Articles 1 - 4 of 4

• Career advancement - learning about the PIEF

  The Personal Injury Outcome Foundation (PIEF) enables claims and RTW Coordinator training. Nathan Clarke, Executive Manager, talks about PIEFs approach and offers.

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• 60 Summits Project hits Oz

  60 Summits promotes a new model for RTW with 16 specific recommendations; in the lead-up to an Australian visit Jennifer Christian, the project's leader, gives insight into how it works.

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• Return to Work Matters Strategic Summer Reading Package

  Three volumes of RTWMatters Greatest Hits to get you pointed in the right direction

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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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• What's missing from undergraduate occupational medicine tuition?

  We need better approaches to teaching medical students about work, health and occupational medicine.

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• Canada trains researchers to share the love!

  Disability prevention researchers benefit from collaboration and communication in an innovative Canadian program