Articles tagged under ‘Webinars’

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• Webinar recording — Will best practice in personal injury case/claims management please reveal itself?

  Personal injury compensation schemes have been around for more than 75 years. Yet the question, 'What is best or better practice in case and claims management?' continues to be asked. In this webinar, Andrew Fronsko talks about recent research on interventions to improve RTW, some areas for future work and care approaches that can help people with injuries and disabilities get their lives back on track.

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• Webinar recording — Implementing value-based healthcare in personal injury schemes

  In this webinar, Jamie Macdonald discusses SIRA’s approach to implementing value, their key achievements and their priorities for the next 12 months. 

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• Webinar recording — Every recovery needs a plan

  John McMahon, Director of Science at Navigator Group, discusses their Navigator Support Program which reduces cost and duration of claims by addressing psychosocial barriers to recovery.

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• Webinar recording: Q&A with ReturnToWorkSA – Lighting the way for RTW Coordinators

  In this Q&A session, Mary Wyatt interviews ReturnToWorkSA Employer Education Advisor, Houda Peters on the many resources available for RTW Coordinators. 

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• Webinar recording — Reducing incidences of violence and aggression against aged care workers

  Tatjana Jokic talks us through the aims, implementation and outcomes of a successful pilot program to reduce the incidence of violence and aggression towards care workers.

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• Webinar recording — It pays to care: from policy to practice

  Dr Mary Wyatt introduces the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's recently-launched policy on work injury scheme design and explores some practical approaches to improve how our schemes operate.

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• Webinar recording — Thrive at Work: Prevent harm through SMART work design

  Evidence-based strategies for organisations to support employees across the full spectrum of mental health in the workplace

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• Webinar recording - WorkWell: Preventing mental injury and promoting mental health

  In this webinar, Jennifer Fry, Director of WorkWell at WorkSafe Victoria, shares free tools and resources to help you build a positive and mentally healthy workplace.

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• Webinar recording — New insights into healthcare use in Australian workers’ compensation schemes.

  In this webinar Professor Alex Collie, Director of the Healthy Working Life Research Group and Dr Mary Wyatt, Occupational Physician, discuss the gap between evidence and practice and the opportunities for change.

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• Webinar recording: Wellbeing and Mental Health – Building inner resilience and supporting others in 2022 - Beyond Blue

  Small business owners have been doing it tough for a long time and statistics are demonstrating higher levels of psychological distress within this community.

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• Webinar recording: Rebuilding one shattered brick at a time - understanding workplace bullying

  Michael Plowright, Director of Working Well Together shares from over two decades of leadership and experience in changing the perceptions of bullying behaviour.

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• Webinar recording: No Time for Health - New ways to overcome the challenges of engaging with small business around mental health and wellbeing

  An important conversation about the challenges of engaging with small business owners and how we can begin to bridge the gap with this unique group to protect and promote their mental health and wellbeing.

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• Webinar recording: Two highly experienced and effective case managers share their experience of what works

  Dr Wyatt interviews two case managers involved in an extremely effective evidenced based proactive and early intervention approach.

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• Webinar recording: The elephant in the room - a rehabbers journey to the other side

  Dr Mary Wyatt interviews Rhea Mercado, author and rehabilitation professional, about the connection she sees between performance targets, process-driven systems and worker wellbeing.

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• Webinar recording: My top strategies for rehabilitation case management

  In this webinar psychologist, Tatjana Jokic shares top strategies for effective case management.

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• Webinar recording: Case management - The good, the bad and the ugly

  In this webinar, the first in a series of webinars on case management, Dr Mary Wyatt outlines the core elements of the case management process and discusses what gets in the way of us doing a great job of case managing work injury.

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• Webinar recording: Prevalence and patterns of health service use in compensated Australian workers with low back pain

  In this webinar, Michael Di Donato reports on his recent research into imaging and opioid use in compensated Australian workers with low back pain.

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• Webinar recording: Best practice physiotherapy consultations, a focus on function and return to work

  For patients with high distress or low self efficacy, health care can inadvertently do harm. How can physiotherapists avoid these pitfalls and promote recovery instead?

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• Webinar recording: Barriers and enablers to healthcare professionals adopting a patient-centered (biopsychosocial) approach.

  Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Wendy Ng & Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Tim Mitchell address the issue of the implementation of patient-centered care in clinical practice.

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• Webinar recording: The Elephant in the room - too much medicine

  Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Professor Peter O'Sullivan from Curtin University, discusses why current approaches do not improve outcomes and examines what needs to change.

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• Webinar recording: Good healthcare - what is it and is your worker getting it?

  In this webinar Dr Wyatt explores what constitutes good healthcare in work injury management and how you can recognise it.

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• Webinar recording: Recovery Blueprint: helping case managers help injured workers

  The Recovery Blueprint project is a partnership between Monash University and WorkCover Queensland with the aim of introducing evidence-based risk identification to workers compensation case management in Queensland.

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• Webinar recording: Implementing early screening to identify and manage at risk workers to prevent unnecessary work disability: Lessons from the WISE study

  This webinar outlines the key learnings from the WISE study and the core components that made a major difference.

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• Webinar recording:Systematic approaches to identifying and addressing biopsychosocial barriers – the missing policy in RTW Part 3

  In the third and final installment of this excellent series, Dr Pam Garton talks challenges, core components and next steps in implementing a system-wide biopsychosocial approach to injury management.

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• Webinar recording:Systematic approaches to identifying and addressing biopsychosocial barriers – the missing policy in RTW Part 2

  In part two of a three part series on identifying and managing psychosocial issues in RTW, Dr Pam Garton discusses psychosocial assessment.

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• Webinar recording:Systematic approaches to identifying and addressing biopsychosocial barriers – the missing policy in RTW Part 1

  In part 1 of 3, Pam Garton PhD gives us the background on her excellent research and explains how to identify psychosocial risk.

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• Webinar recording: Automated Manual Handling Risk Assessments: a benefit or a distraction?

  Presented by David Bick of JointAction Solutions along with Michael Lawrence and Roscoe McCord during question time, this webinar asks whether automated risk assessment technology is faster, more accurate and more reliable than checklist-in-hand approache

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• Webinar recording: Translating Sport Science Research into Practical Injury Management Programs

  How an injured nurse, an elite athlete and wearable technology can help you reduce musculoskeletal injuries in your workplace.

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• Webinar recording: Implications for the Health Benefits of Good Work in the era of COVID-19

  Good work has health benefits even during times of crisis. Tips for supporting remote workers, protecting essential services workers, and looking after injured workers whilst coping with COVID.

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• Webinar recording: Case management - Early identification of people at high risk for work disability

  An occupational physician's guide to identifying and supporting high-risk individuals and common barriers to return to work.

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• Webinar recording: Good work design – it is in the DNA of a human-centred organisation

  Dr Sara Pazell discusses how a human-centred organisation is committed to work and job design that promotes worker health, well-being, and productivity.

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• Webinar recording: Compassion fatigue and emotional well-being of workers compensation employees

  This webinar will discuss new research which has begun to consider risk factors and protective factors for professional quality of life in Australian workers compensation professionals.

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• Webinar recording: Managing shoulder injuries and rethinking our approach

  This webinar looks at common shoulder conditions and explains why current diagnostic investigations and surgical procedures don't always have the benefits we'd expect.

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• Webinar recording: Expectations Management in Vocational Rehabilitation

  This webinar is designed to educate individuals working in the injury management space on a variety of expectations and constraints that can affect return to work.

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• Webinar recording: The challenge of bullying – the negative consequences and effective responses

  This webinar explores the nature and effects of workplace bullying and what factors help to ensure a safe return to work.

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• Webinar recording: Return to Work Coordinators, Doctors and Return to Work: an update

  New research on the influence of return to work coordinators and health care providers on return to work

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• Webinar recording: A work-design focused Return to Work process

  Meredith Carr discusses how to effectively implement a work-design focused RTW process and the benefits that are gained by adopting evidence-based work design principles.

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• Webinar recording: The importance of social connection in RTW

  Associate Professor Caroline Howe explains what icare's research into social connection tells us.

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• Video: How to get the most out of RTWMatters

  An introduction to the resources available with tips on how to get the most out of your subscription

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• Webinar recording: Understanding musculoskeletal problems - Part 3 - Shoulders and knees

  In our final webinar of our series, Dr Wyatt explains common shoulder and knee problems and how to assist employees with related conditions.

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• Webinar recording: Understanding musculoskeletal problems - Part 2: Neck and Back Pain

  In part two of our three-part series, Dr Wyatt explains common neck and back problems and gives practical tips to help employees manage them at work.

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• Webinar recording: From theory to practice - Creating psychologically healthy workplaces

  Practical steps to build and maintain a psychologically healthy workplace and minimise psychosocial risks.

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• Webinar recording: The cross sector project -Mapping Australian Systems of Income Support for People with Health-Related Work Incapacity

  Michael Di Donato reports on the project undertaken by the Insurance Work and Health Group, Monash University.

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• Webinar recording: Understanding musculoskeletal problems - Part 1: Introduction

  In part one of a three part series, Dr Wyatt covers the basics of musculoskeletal conditions, including difficulties employees face.

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• Webinar recording: Work-related psychological health and safety matters.

  Meeting your duties under the work health and safety laws.

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• Webinar recording: Hacking Return To Work: 3 surprisingly simple RTW strategies you can use right now

  RTW strategies you can use right now to speed up your outcomes and deal with complex cases

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• Webinar recording: Understanding and using "self-efficacy" in RTW

  Ollie Black presents on "Self Efficacy" - a person-level concept that impacts return to work.

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• Webinar recording: How to develop a first class provider network

  James Fletcher discusses a framework for building a quality provider network

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• Webinar recording: Working with a Company Doctor - A Unique Medical Discipline

  Dr James Crompton discusses the role of the company doctor, including employer expectations, limitations and how they can help.

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• Webinar recording: Deal with it early, deal with it right

  The value of effective injury reporting systems

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• Webinar recording:Taking control of Workers' Compensation

  Understanding risk management when it comes to Workers’ Compensation premiums is valuable knowledge for Return to Work Coordinators and Employers in managing both health outcomes and in reducing costs.

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• Webinar recording: RTWCs & Doctors: Their influence on return to work

  RTW Coordinators and health care providers: Longitudinal studies into their impact on RTW

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• Webinar recording: Mediation v Litigation - Two part series

  Dispute resolution options in RTW and Industrial cases including a case study

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• Webinar recording: Life Insurance - What to do when you don't have a big stick - Make carrot soup.

  Meredith Taylor, Trina Moyes and Josh Agar from MLC Life Insurance discuss innovative ways to motivate and engage claimants.

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• Webinar recording: An update on the Health Benefits of Good Work (HBGW) Campaign

  And initiatives of the Australian HBGW Signatory Steering Group.

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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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• Webinar recording: Online Functional Job Dictionaries

  Maximising their benefit in your workplace

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• Webinar recording: Implementing a 24/7 injury reporting line

  This webinar discusses the values and outcomes of 24/7 injury reporting lines

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• Webinar recording: Manage your mindset

  3 key principles of communication you can start using immediately to speed up your RTW outcomes

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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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• Webinar recording: Effective physical rehab

  The injured worker needs and deserves it.

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• Webinar recording: Rebuilding life after brain injury

  Approaches to supporting people to rebuild meaningful life role participation.

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• Webinar recording: Physiotherapists and return to work

  This panel discussion explores physiotherapy strategic approaches to improve return to work and the worker's health outcomes.

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• Webinar recording: Improve mental health in your workplace

  An introduction to the Workplace Alliance and Beyondblue's workplace mental health initiative

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• Webinar recording: Cultivating happiness at work to improve RTW

  The Happiness at Work Program, a 30-day program devised to improve personal happiness and positively impact workplace productivity.

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• Webinar recording: What works - Lessons from overseas

  The most successful workers' compensation system in the world is one you haven't heard of.

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• Webinar recording: Independent Medical Examiners: Assessing capacity for work

  Dr Mary Wyatt explores the role of the IME in assessing work capacity for injured or ill employees.

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• Webinar Recording: The nuts and bolts of work oriented treatment

  Gain an understanding of the practical aspects of Work Oriented Treatment for workers experiencing psychological injury.

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• Webinar Recording: Improving RTW Outcomes - the Strategic Impact of Work Oriented Treatment Part 1

  Gain an understanding of the strategic impact of Work Oriented Treatment for workers experiencing psychological injury.

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• Webinar recording: Supervisors and co-workers, vital but often overlooked links in RTW

  This webinar explores evidence on how supervisors and coworkers can influence RTW, and how to get them involved productively

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• Webinar Recording: Knee injuries - Getting employees back on their feet

  This webinar looks at work contribution to, the nature of, and rehabilitation of knee injuries.

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• Webinar recording: Using Disability Guidelines to assist return to work

  Recent subscriber survey feedback highlighted the need for more advanced webinar topics and discussion. This webinar is suitable for intermediate to advanced levels of experience and long term RTWMatters subscribers.

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• Webinar Recording: Workplace conflict - Early action at the coal face

  Conflict is best dealt with early, and by those involved.

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• Webinar Recording: How PAIN can be the key to successful RTW

  This webinar discusses how gains can be made by understanding the complexity of factors that contribute to pain and disability.

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• Webinar Recording: Employers taking the lead role

  In this webinar Kerry Foster, Director of Active Occupational Health Services, will discuss the importance of the employer’s involvement in the return to work.

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• Webinar Recording: Engaging others early - The art of influence in return to work

  Building influence without authority and how it can support personal injury management professionals.

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• Webinar Recording: Adjusting to change

  Adjusting to change is difficult for all of us, but it can be particularly difficult after a work injury.

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• Webinar Recording: Understanding others

  The art of influence in return to work

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• Webinar Recording: Supervisor Training

  This webinar presentation with PIEF discusses the impact of training supervisors on return to work outcomes.

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• Webinar Recording: The role of the medical certificate in identifying and managing RTW barriers

  Physiotherapist Harry Papagoras discusses how medical certificates can be used to identify return to work barriers and implement effective management strategies.

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• Webinar Recording: How Jetstar reduced the impact of workplace injuries by implementing a novel early intervention model

  How an innovative phone medical service helped Jetstar to support their employees with early streamlined care

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• Webinar Recording: Participatory Ergonomics & Manual Handling

  This presentation will discuss how “Participatory Ergonomic” principles can be considered and implemented to increase workplace involvement in effectively controlling manual handling risks.

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• Webinar Recording: Getting stuck on modified duties - a case discussion

  Deborah Howard, a US return to work manager, faces many of the same issues Australian employers and insurers deal with.

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• Webinar recording: Telephonic support to facilitate return to work: what works, how, and when?

  A research review of telephone use for case management was released in the UK this year. Learn about the skills and resources required to be effective with telephonic case management.

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• Recorded webinar: Case Study & Discussion - Reintegration after a difficult bullying / harassment case

  Bullying/harassment claims can be complex to assess and manage. A thorough assessment may require an investigation. This is a difficult process for those involved, including co-workers.

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• Webinar Recording: Spinal pain and work - Professor Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde

  Back pain and neck pain are common. What do we know about their natural history, work contribution and the contribution of genetics?

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• Recorded webinar: Bullying, interpersonal conflict and psychological injuries - Dr Doron Samuell

  Whilst psychological injury claims are less common that physical workplace injuries, they represent almost a quarter of the expense that all insurers are incurring as a result of these conditions

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• Webinar Recording: Pre-employment functional assessments: a physiotherapist's evidence based perspective

  Dr Eva Schonstein.

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• Webinar Recording: Optimising outcomes for workers with back pain through enhanced self-management and collaboration

  Listen to musculoskeletal physiotherapist, Dr. Jon Ford, talk about how practitioners can help workers embrace self-management strategies and address obstacles to recovery and return to work. 

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• Webinar Recording: RTW - Human Resources says you get the results you deserve

  Neil Thompson, a Human Resources manager with decades of experience in workers compensation, discusses what goes on the 'factory floor' regarding return to work.

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• Webinar Recording: Adjustment Disorder and Work

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• Recorded webinar: Proactive versus reactive injury management

  Dealing with challenging cases is complex and it's always useful to gain insights from people who have been down this path and faced the issues involved. Dr Paul Pers has an enormous amount of experience and is going to talk to about the benefits of

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• Recorded webinar: Helping a discouraged employee

  This webinar looks at ways that everyone can make a positive contribution towards improving the mental health of a person who appears to be struggling.

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• Recorded Webinar: Communicating with Doctors - GPs and Specialists

  This webinar explores how RTW Coordinators and Claims Managers can communicate effectively with treating practitioners to establish a cooperative relationship.

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• Recorded Webinar: Improving RTW Culture in the Workplace

  This webinar will explore the initiatives that ISS Facility Services' National Injury Assist Team have undertaken since their creation in October 2010 to help improve the RTW culture throughout their organisation.

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• Recorded webinar: The medical assessment of work capacity

  This webinar explores how doctors determine a person's work capacity.

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• Recorded Webinar: Managing Psychological Claims in the Workplace

  Psychological or mental health claims are a fast growing liability for most compensation schemes. Psychologist Kaye Frankcom addresses the appropriate management of these claims in the workplace.

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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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• Recorded Webinar: A Case Management Discussion

  Frank Imbesi & Dr Mary Wyatt discuss a case put forward by RTWMatters subscriber Meagan Moravcova.

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• Recorded Webinar: Physiotherapy - how to get the best

  Occupational physiotherapy expert Paul Coburn explains the principles of good physiotherapy and how you can positively influence practitioners.

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• Video webinar: Improving Return to Work Motivation with Optimism

  Theo Feldbrugge discusses the impact of optimism / pessimism on return to work.

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• WEBINAR - Using surveys to understand your workplace and prevent claims

  Dr Peter Cotton explains how understanding workplace morale and quality of management allows improvements to be made.

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• Case discussion - the difficult case that requires integration with claims management

  A case discussion with Andrew Paice of Nabenet and Lucia Tsui of Allianz.

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• Motivational interviewing and RTW Webinar

  Motivated employees have better return to work outcomes.

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• Webinar Recording: Living in parallel universes.

  Physiotherapists and claims manager's beliefs about treatment for injured workers.

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• Recorded Webinar: Effective approaches to maximise effectiveness & efficiency of case management

  In this webinar we explore software applications that can assist organisations with over 200 employees manage return to work and employee health.