Psychosocial Screening – ID the Risk early in Return to Work
Psychosocial screening early in the Return to Work process is critical to understand factors that impact injured workers. These factors play a critical role in the ability of injured or ill workers to recover in a timely way. They also make transitioning back to meaningful work difficult. Clinicians call this the biopsychosocial model of illness. […]
Return to Work Expedited with MyAbilities
How is Return to Work expedited? MyAbilities recognized that the Return to Work (RTW) process for many employers and their claims managers has not fundamentally changed in decades. MyAbilities developed a new process to help expedite RTW over the last 3 years. The goals are to get employees back to work faster and to reduce […]
JobX Digital Job Profiles – The Value for Employers
Job profiles, also known as job descriptions or physical demands analyses, are critically important for employers. Unfortunately, many companies do not have accurate and comprehensive job profiles. They may: All of this puts the employer at a major disadvantage and even at risk. The Benefits Firstly, let’s discuss the benefits. JobX Digital Job Profile (DJP) […]
Automated risk assessments from Functional Job Descriptions – using PDAi and the Demand Score to look at risk in your workplace
Written by Mike Sonne, PhD, CCPE Typically – a physical demands description, or a function job description, has served as a cookbook – a recipe to determine the ingredients required to complete a job, but nothing like a food critique that would tell you if that job was good or bad. If someone needed to […]
Functional job descriptions: Why do you need them?
Beth Burry – AVP, clinical ops, Sedgwick field case management and return to work As every manager knows, job descriptions are a necessary tool to help match the most appropriate and qualified candidates to job postings, while weeding out ‘unqualified’ candidates. This means many job descriptions are written to exclude candidates in the application process […]
Use Collaboration, Technology for ADA Compliance and Positive Return to Work Outcomes
BY AMAXX / Michael B. Stack Returning an injured worker to the job before he’s physically ready can be a nightmare. The last thing an employer wants to do is put the employee at risk of reinjury. On the other hand, waiting to bring an employee back until he is 100 percent recovered prolongs the number […]
Video Kinematics Produces Physical Job Demand Descriptions on Steroids
BY AMAXX / Michael B. Stack How familiar are you with the physical demands of every job in your company? That may sound like a loaded question, but the more understanding you have of each job, the better you’ll be at preventing injuries, reducing workers’ compensation costs and improving your bottom line. However, many companies face […]
Work Habits Impact Bodies
BY BENEFITS AND PENSIONS MONITOR Many do not realize the impact work habits have on their physical bodies with incorrectly placed or improperly sized equipment causing injuries which can result in time off work, depending on insurance and benefits, and could mean lost wages, says Reed Hanoun, founder and CEO of MyAbilities. It works with […]
Claim and Medical Management in MyAbilities
Written by Jacob Lazarovic, MD, FAAFP, MyAbilities Chief Medical Officer MyAbilities is an innovative new integrated platform which, at its core, offers employers an opportunity to create a database of comprehensive, objective digital job profiles (DJPs) describing the functional characteristics of every job type at their company. This offers an employer key benefits including more efficient […]
Ontario Court Confirms Employer Can Request IME
Written by E.C. Carla Zabek, Barrister & Solicitor, Mediator & Facilitator, Human Rights & Workplace Investigator The Divisional Court ruled that in appropriate circumstances, an employer can request an employee to submit to an independent medical assessment (IME) as part of the accommodation process. In this case, the employer, a school board, received conflicting medical reports which […]
