Bring Workers Back the Right Way
One basic way to avoid extravagant workers’ compensation costs is to get your employee back to work. Due to an injury, however, it is possible they may not be able to perform the same job as before or can still do it, but with some modifications.
We call these modifications “transitional duties.” This gets your employee back to work, earning a paycheck and not sitting at home taking in workers’ comp checks and becoming psychologically used to not working.
Here are some tips:
Adopt a corporate-wide Injury Management Transitional Duty Policy describing how transitional duty is implemented at your workplace including:
- The length of transitional duty assignments.
- The circumstances under which employees will perform transitional duty.
- Types of transitions duty offered.
- The circumstances under which employs will be retuned to regular work.
Develop a transitional duty job bank which includes:Jobs or tasks indentified for use in your injury management transitional duty program. Tasks should accommodate injuries of employees who are out of work due to a work-related injury.
Be sure to hold weekly meetings with injured employees to monitor progress and document return-to-work obstacles. (workersxzcompxzkit).
Author: Robert Elliott, J.D.
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