Bayly Grant: Workers' Compensation: Solutions

Solutions

The current workers’ compensation system reform has created a new and unique opportunity to enhance the care of injured workers while saving money.

If you want to control co, return them to productive work quickly, you can implement internal methods that will impact your bottom line immediately.

Quote You can join the organizations that have saved up to 93% from the cost of workers’ compensation, health care and lost work time. You can accomplish this by adopting unique and highly effective processes designed to manage the prevention of injury, treatment of injury when it occurs as well as the quick, safe return to work of injured employees. These health and injury management systems actually save you time and money. They are complimentary to the Practice Guidelines being mandated to the medical providers treating your employees.

Simply stated, considerable workers’ compensation savings result from taking an orchestrated approach to workers’ compensation program management. This orchestration provides comprehensive, integrated employee injury prevention, management, and return to work based on the specific needs of your organization and workforce.

The primary goal of your workers’ compensation management system is to decrease the cost of workers’ compensation claims.

Secondary goals of your workers’ compensation cost management system are to:

Decrease the frequency and severity of workers’ compensation claims
Decrease lost work time from injuries
Reduce the potential for re-injury
Reduce the occurrence and impact of repetitive motion injuries
Create a deterrent for questionable claims
Create an incentive for personal responsibility
Increase employee morale and productivity
Decrease absenteeism and its associated costs

Some program components of an orchestrated Workers’ Compensation Cost Management System™ are:

Performance of an organizational needs assessment
Identification of high risk areas
Targeted on-site health, safety and injury prevention training of employees
Body mechanics training by workgroup for new hires in high risk jobs
Ergonomic worker/worksite evaluation and training services for individuals and key workgroups
Musculoskeletal exams and/or functional capacity testing on new hires in high risk jobs
Development of an infrastructure that supports an injury management system
Facilitation of injury management system training of claims representatives, third party administrators, medical providers, ancillary service providers and your organization’s management, with the goal of helping injured employees return to work more quickly and safely
Provision of on-site training and injury management services to injured workers
Training of your health and safety personnel in injury management systems and techniques
Recruitment and training of specialized injury management personnel
Ongoing information gathering for quantifying physical requirements for high risk job categories to enhance job descriptions
Provision of train-the-trainer programs as appropriate
Provision of technical assistance to management to facilitate return to work programs
Tracking and evaluation of outcomes and dollar savings

Bayly Grant Implementing your workers’ compensation management system will enhance communication between all parties involved with the treatment and return to work of an injured worker. It will also enhance your ability to offer safe modified work options and effective return to work programs.

Workers’ compensation reform has stopped the hemorrhaging of the system. It is up to employers to compliment the reform, partner with the system and implement an integrated approach to injury prevention, management and return to work. If these concepts appeal to you, contact us and we’ll get to work helping you implement your organization’s workers’ compensation cost management program.

Returning injured employees to work quickly and safely minimizes the financial impact of an injury on both the employer and the employee. Employ all of your resources and maximize your organization’s profitability, productivity and safety. We’d like to show you how. Contact us.