Prevention, Treatment, And rehabilitation of workplace injuries
Prevention, Treatment, And rehabilitation of workplace injuries
IOH trainers are specialist Regulator approved trainers delivering both the Introduction to RTW and Advanced RTW courses. They are injury management professionals and have extensive and broad experience in workers compensation with a working knowledge of State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA), Seacare and Comcare Legislation. They continue to case manage injury management cases and achieve durable return to work outcomes.
Where possible our courses incorporate guest speakers such as Doctors, Psychologists and/or experienced RTW Coordinators who come along to share their insight and knowledge with participants. Additionally online short videos are incorporated to help put theory into practice.
A return to work coordinator is an employee nominated by an employer (or a contractor engaged for the role) whose principal purpose is to assist injured workers remain at or to return to work in a safe and durable manner. The return to work coordinator ensures the policy and procedures in an employer’s return to work program are followed.
Under workers compensation law, category one employers (i.e. employers whose basic tariff premium exceeds $50 000 annually as well as self-insurers, and employers who are insured by a specialised insurer and employ more than 20 workers) must have a return to work coordinator.
The “Guidelines for workplace return to work programs” are made under section 52 of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998. They commenced on 1 Jan 2011. Page 24 states that every Category 1 employer must designate a RTW coordinator who must attend Regulator approved training. They must hold a certificate for the two day course ‘Introduction to return to work coordination’.
It is a requirement under NSW Workers Compensation and Injury Management legislation for Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU’s) to have in place a Return To Work Program consistent with State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) guidelines. For many this means having a Return To Work Coordinator who has completed the Introduction to Return To Work Coordination course, delivered by a Regulator Approved Trainer.
Session One: Overview of the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation System
Session Two: Role of the RTW Coordinator
Session Three: Working With Key Players
Session Four: Role of the Insurer
Session Five: Putting Theory into Practice
Session Six: Components of a Workplace RTW Program
Session Seven: Developing a RTW Plan
Session Eight (A)
Session Eight (B)
Session Nine
Session Ten
