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Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation
It's simple: the longer someone is
away from work, the less likely they are to return.
Why should you want them to
return?
 YOU are legally responsible to provide
rehabilitation and return to work opportunities for your
workers who have a work-related injury.Effective injury management keeps down the
costs of workers compensation claims. If the overall
cost of claims for your industry drops, the industry
levy rate will be reduced.
Because you should be a caring employer;
and
Injured workers get paid money but are
unproductive because they are not at work.
YOU
will benefit in many ways from safer work practices. For
example, if your injured workers can get back to work
you will not need to replace them.
So,
in order to ensure they come back to work, you need to
be actively involved in the claim and the claims
process. This is managing a claim.
Studies have shown that every dollar of a
workers compensation claim costs a business up to nine
times more in indirect costs. |
