Commitment
Purposes
Scope
All injured employees of ABC Company are eligible for benefit from this program. ABC Company will issue a modified transitional task to an injured employee for a period of 150 days after the injury. During this period, the progress s of the employee will be monitored and at the end a full physician report issued on the state of the worker’s health. If found necessary then more time intervals of 20 days will be given with the recommendation of the physician and signed by the supervisor (Ball, 2002).
Objectives
Duration
An employee under this program will benefit for the whole period of his or her integration into the normal work environment. The program will be implemented and effected within a period of 6 years. After the duration, it will be subjected to revision and further consideration for use based on its relevance.
Responsibilities
It is a policy that all the departments’ heads will provide the essential modified duty, normal duty within limited time or specified assignments for the injured employees whenever called upon by the physician.
The worker under this program will report to the immediate supervisor in their respective departments. The supervisors shall provide a written sheet on which the progress of the worker will be recorded and both of them shall sign. A job that lacks a direct supervisor shall be done with strict supervision from the attending physician (Facilitating return-to-work, 2001).
- He or she should monitor the development of the injured worker and give a recorded account of progress
- Should oversee that no medical restriction is avoided by worker
- Provide a good modified duty or even special activities for the worker (Facilitating return-to-work, 2001).
Compensation policy
The company is devoted to working with the medical provider and the insurance provider to ensure that the right compensation is given to the employee and that the specified modification of the work conditions of the employees are achieved (ABC, 2007). The injured employee shall not be eligible to his or her maximum wages in a normal working situation but the compensation to be given will be based on the productivity of the injured employee (Wertz and Bryant, 2001).
Medical Provider Communication and Interaction
- The patient will need to submit a written schedule of treatment from the doctor at the supervisor’s office.
- The medical provider will be ready to attend to any medical condition that may arise at the course of duty.
- All documents of relating to the treatment shall be kept in duplicates both at the company offices and the physician’s premise.
- The doctor has the overall mandate to recommend any further sessions without consulting with the supervisor provided that he or she notifies the supervisor.
- When an injured worker needs to transfer from one physician to another he shall be required to fill a transfer form which shall be duly signed by a physician and supervisor. (Schneid, 1999).
Obtaining Information on Work Restrictions
- The physician will provide the respective supervisors with the required restrictions for each job. A copy of the restrictions will each be issued to the injured worker for follow up. In case of any complaints, the worker can write a letter to the attending nurse or physician and send a copy to the head office for review.
- Any worker that shall be found to have flouted some of these restrictions whether during or of the work will be liable to disciplinary action as stated in the company memorandum.
Pre-Planning and Providing Information about Available Light Work and Modified Work
The HR department and the rehabilitation personnel’s will facilitate the communication process of the availability of the vacancies of the light work whose job description has already been drafted. The relevant information concerning the medical condition of the injured employee will be scrutinized and a conclusion on whether the employee qualifies for a given job will be drawn (Facilitating return-to-work, 2001).
Periodic Progress Review
The company will review the process of implementation of the program and the benefits accrued by beneficiaries through one on one interrogation of the injured employee. A review process will then be commenced based on the information obtained from the stakeholders (Power and Hershenson, 2003)
List of Light Duties
These are some of the special duties that a worker can be allocated during the transition period
- Desk jobs
- Communications coordinator
- Receptionist
- Cash handling
- Inventory recording
- Localized Work Supervision
The duties given to the injured employee shall be assigned to the injured staff with the full recommendation of the treating physician (Manning, 2003). Apart from the above mentioned jobs, the attending physician in consultation with the supervisor may agree on other special tasks or modified duties that the employee can be engaged in (Petersen, 2005).
Process for communicating restrictions internally
The process of communicating restrictions internally to the injured workers will be outlined in the program. The adherence to the stipulated restrictions is expected to be observed to the later. The injured worker is expected to notify the organisation about any modifications that he would prefer to be effected in his line of duty before consulting the medical provider. The restriction offered by the medical provider shall then communicate the proposed modification in the line of duty of the worker. Other that the outlined procedure for communication other channels followed will be deemed invalid and they will not be honored whatsoever (Schneid, 1999).
Employees off work on TTD concerning return-to-work plan
The temporarily totally disabled workers shall resume work under this program upon consultation with a medical provider and provision of a go ahead based on the suitability to modified work condition (Facilitating return-to-work, 2001).
Employees presently working light or modified duty
The employees currently working on the light duties are the ones with less severe injuries. The employees with the broken parts of the body shall be left out of the program for the start while those nursing sores caused by fire injuries shall be considered for indoor modified duties only.
Regular Job Description (Senior Accountant)
The company being a multinational will employee an individual with full capacity to execute duties of the company as required by the job description without defaulting in any way. A person with people skills, able to appreciate the diversity of various cultures and above all honest in his endeavors with the company will be Preferred. The individual will be expected to be available for any duty at any time. The personnel should be able to exercise flexibility in traveling to any place within and outside the country.
- Balancing the income statement and the statement of accounts in the end of the year.
- Ensuring the confidentiality of the books of account are kept according to the labor laws otherwise face prosecution.
- Facilitating the purchase of commodities of the company in person
- Supervise junior employees within the whole company
- Higher and sack junior accounts department’s employees for any misconduct with regard to their contract.
- Sit in the annual general meeting as a member of the executive board of directors.
- Have a voting right toward policies being formulated by the management.
- Has the duty to uphold integrity and proper conduct within the work environment.
- Should uphold equity in treatment of the junior officials and attend fairly to complaints.
Light-Duty Job Description (Senior Accountant)
- Balancing the preliminary income statement and the statement of accounts.
- Facilitating the purchase of commodities of the company in representation.
- Supervise junior employees within the apportioned locality
- Have a voting right toward policies being formulated by the management.
- Has the duty to uphold integrity and proper conduct within the work environment.
- Should uphold equity in treatment of the junior officials and attend fairly to complaints.
Form for Medical Information Release
I.. an employee at give permission to my personal medical doctor, . to share medical information with my medical provider of my organization. My medical doctor and his staff are also free to share my medical information of any nature with the medical provider at any time.
Information on the Injured Worker
Mobile number .
Information on the Medical Doctor
Mobile number .
Return-To-Work Forms (Completed by Medical Provider)
Xxxx Hospital
Fax
Mobile Number
This is to certify that an employee at has been under my care from .to and is now able to successfully return to work.
Medical provider’s remarks ..
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