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Effective Innovations in Injury and Loss Reduction

Effective Innovations in Injury and Loss Reduction. Chad Demulling: WeatherShield Mfr November 10 th , 2006 DSI Work Solutions Inc. – Functional Fitness for Duty Conference. Work Injury Prevention & Management. Medical providers. Functional data sharing. Objective vs. subjective.

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Effective Innovations in Injury and Loss Reduction

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  1. Effective Innovations in Injury and Loss Reduction Chad Demulling:WeatherShield Mfr November 10th, 2006 DSI Work Solutions Inc. – Functional Fitness for Duty Conference

  2. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Medical providers. • Functional data sharing. • Objective vs. subjective. • Focus on ability rather than disability. • Functional testing to speed RTW and transitional job matching.

  3. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Therapist partnership. • Early intervention. • Mediator to medical providers. • Functional testing. • Pre-hire • Post accident • Case management.

  4. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Clear policies and procedures. • Necessary for consistent process use and legal protection. • Business rules. • Specific site “rules” that dictate how process is applied for specific facility needs. • Job groupings for pre-hire. • Job roll out for return to work.

  5. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Functional Job Descriptions. • Objective data for job requirements. • Basis for pre-hire testing and RTW job matching. • Also used in recruiting • Valuable tool for work related and non-work related case resolution.

  6. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Pre-hire post offer testing. • Prevention of ever incurring injury if prospective employee does not have physical abilities to complete job tasks. • Enables us ability to place employees in positions we know they are capable of doing safely. • Alert prospective employees of “ health conditions” they may not be aware of.

  7. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Post accident functional testing. • Objective ability data used to match with functional requirements of transitional duty positions. • Objective data used by providers to tailor treatment plan, expedite RTW (full duty), and reach MMI / EOH.

  8. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Expected outcomes • Reductions in new hire injuries. • Effective placement • Not inheriting pre-existing conditions • Reduction in overall injuries. • Hiring candidates with necessary physical abilities • Reductions in lost time & restricted duty. • Post accident functional testing. • Case management, early intervention. • Reduction in losses.

  9. Work Injury Prevention & Management • Results: • 180 employee pre-hire tests. • 9 employees failed to be hired. • Only 1 new hire injury out of the 171 new employees placed. • October 24th, 2005 process start date.

  10. Results: injuries, lost time, restricted duty

  11. Results: lost work days, restricted days

  12. Additional Benefits • Decrease in worker comp losses. • 50% reduction. • Improved efficiencies. • Improved employee morale. • Improved supervisory morale. • Future plan; to control STD costs through matching ability of person to transitional positions during healing period.

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