Return to work efforts, including job retention, are focused on the workplace and consider factors such as workplace actors, resources, work design and structure.
Guideline code
RTW_01200
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The return-to-work professional in the workplace should work collaboratively with the management, employees, trade unions and other workplace actors to develop and implement an integrated return-to-work policy.
- The employer should establish other preventive programmes related to occupational safety and health and wellness to support the return-to-work programme.
- The employer should provide funds to support the return-to-work programme and act as its champion.
- The return-to-work professional in the workplace should promote the return-to-work programme at the workplace, ensure easy access to it, and monitor and evaluate it to ensure that it is effective.
- The management in the workplace should support the embedding of return-to-work practices as part of “mainstream” human resources practice at the workplace.
Structure
Structure
- The management should provide leadership in the return to work, working with employers and other workplace actors to establish return-to-work policy for their respective organizations which is consistent and in compliance with relevant legislation.
- The management should use incentives such as funding and expertise, and support regulatory changes where necessary, to encourage employers to institute return-to-work programmes in their respective workplaces.
- The management should delegate coordination of treatment and rehabilitation services to the return-to-work professional, who should assist in achieving these objectives (see B.6. Qualification of Experts).
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Guideline 7. Beginning at the workplace
Type
Guideline_1
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16