Preventing and Managing Disabling Injury at Work

Description

Work-related disability is an increasingly important issue to organizations, in terms of cost, competitiveness, and social and ethical issues. Changes in the nature of disability arising from the evolution of work calls for a new approach to this understudied topic.

Significant developments have taken place in linking injury events with subsequent primary prevention efforts, in engaging key stakeholders in effective pre-injury prevention and post-injury disability management efforts, and in exploring company-level interventions, regulatory interventions, and economic incentives. These issues are examined and brought together to form a unique, evidence-based, state-of-the-art research work revealing what works best in preventing workplace disability.

Preventing and Managing Disabling Injury at Work examines the changing nature of the workplace and work force, and includes the newest information on effective early and staged multi-modal interventions in the workplace. The text also explores psychological risk perception, and the essential linking of the workplace, clinician, insurer, and worker in the recovery process and in the prevention of subsequent disability events.

This volume assembles a group of active researchers in the field of work-related disability from North America and Australia, many of whom manage interactive programs of work through HealNet, a health research network funded by Industry Canada. Well-illustrated with case studies and practical examples, much of the book focuses on the common musculoskeletal disabilities and 'regional disorders' along with other broader applications.

Contents

Disability at Work: Ministering Solutions for a Wicked Problem

John Frank and Terrence Sullivan

UNDERSTANDING RISK FACTORS IN INJURY AND RETURN TO WORK

Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Injury at Work

Mickey Kerr and Robert Norman

Critical Factors in Recovery and Return to Work

Renée-Louise Franche and Niklas Krause

RETURN TO WORK: NEW APPROACHES

Worker Accommodation, Clinical Intervention and Return to Work

Patrick Loisel and Marie José Durand

Injury Prevention and Return to Work: Breaking Down the Solitudes

Annalee Yassi, Aleck Ostry, and Jerry Spiegel

Stakeholder Views of Return to Work after Occupational Injury

Jaime Guzman, John Frank, Susan Stock, Annalee Yassi, and Patrick Loisel

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN INTERVENTION PROGRAMS

Role of the Media in Disability Management

Rachelle Buchbinder, Damien Jolley, and Mary Wyatt

Stakeholder Engagement in the Control of Repetitive Strain Injury

Michael Polanyi and Donald Cole

Evidence-Based Ergonomic Interventions in the Manufacturing Sector

Robert Norman

FROM EVIDENCE TO POLICY AND PRACTICE

Preventing Work-Related Disability: Lessons from Washington

Robert Mootz, Gary Franklin, and Thomas Wickizer

Economic Incentives and Workplace Safety

Terry Thomason

Rugulatory Approaches to Preventing Workplace Injury

John Mendeloff

Related Subjects

1. Safety
2. Safety
3. Human Resources & Training
4. Health & Safety
5. Personnel and Human Resource Management