Corporate

WORK PLACE HEALTH

Are you looking for a solution to all of your Workplace Injury Management needs?
Are you frustrated by the number of injury claims that have become overstated, prolonged or gone through to settlement?
Would you like to have a proven injury management strategy to reduce the number of expensive claims and return your employees back to work sooner?

Allied Health Services Australia can provide you the cost effective and proactive solution you have been looking for.
Through the implementation of a number of important key steps, your work place health expense may be reduced to more realistic levels.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact Allied Health Services Australia.

Phone: (07) 5655 4510

Pre-employment physical and medicals

• Functional capacity evaluation
• Injury treatment and management
• Suitable duties program
• Return to work program
• Ergonomic assessment
• Case management
• Physical conditioning program
• Psychological assistance with reintegration into the work place
• Manual Handling training

The 6-step approach

For effective injury prevention, treatment and management strategy, Allied Health Services Australia recommends the following:

Pre employment Assessments – This ensures that the company is not taking on a potential risk or liability from the outset of employment. Specific job descriptions are matched to a specific level of assessment to ensure accuracy with testing protocols. This occurs subsequent to an “on site” job description and work place analysis.

Injury Management System- All injuries are to be identified and directed for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis on the day of injury to prevent delay of return to work and potential claim. An accurate documentation of the events and resultant outcomes may assist as a defense against an over stated claim in the future.

Onsite weekly “Employee Injury Clinic”- Maintains a healthy work place free from injury. Ensures that potential claims are avoided and any injury is quickly and proactively managed regardless of the cause.

Risk Assessment, Stratification and Solution- Identify potential risks and provide cost effective solution before a serious injury arises. Most injuries are preventable, often risk to injury can be dramatically reduced through either of the following:

• Further training, new technique or strategy
• Change in the environmental set up
• Introduction or modification of equipment

Manual Handling Education- Most people genuinely wish to conduct themselves in a safe manner to ensure absence of injury. However, many people simply lack the knowledge and skill set to complete such. This education is essential if a company is going to maintain low work place injury, in particular back injury associated through poor lifting technique.

Healthy Options Program- Employees often fail to maintain their own personal physical capacity at a level that may be deemed sufficient to perform the most basic expected duties. Spinal and overall physical strength is ignored, particularly in the ageing work force. The most common excuse, “I Don’t Have Time Due to Work Commitments”. However, a healthy options program will not only increase and maintain the physical capacity of your employees to complete their employment duties, but also increase their morale and feelings of support from the company itself.

The Reality Check

• During 2011 within the Queensland Health Care and Social Assistance industries there were 11,711 new statutory claims, which equated to 12.6%. This figure further equated to a $78.7 million dollar expense to the employers of Queensland.
• In Queensland 48,292 injuries were musculoskeletal related, which equated to 52.1% of all injuries.
• The largest area of injuries indicated by Work Cover Queensland were “back” related, with 17,466 claims and thus 18.8% of all musculoskeletal injuries.
• Healthcare and social assistance represented the 3rd highest industry for new common law claims, which equated 494 in total.
• Incidence rates of “serious workers compensation claims” increase with employee age.
• A typical serious claim required on average 4 weeks absence from work.
• One quarter of serious claims required 12 or more weeks off work.
• One in five serious claims involved an injury to the back.
• Work related injury and illness were estimated to cost $60.6 billion in the 2008-
  2009 financial year. This represented 4.8% of the GDP.
• 43% of all serious claims were the result of sprains and strains of joints and adjacent muscles.
• 40.8% of injuries were the result of “body stressing” of the employee.
  Source

  1) Key Work Health and Safety Statistics, Australia 2012
  2) Work Cover Queensland Annual Report 2010-2011

How To Have Your Company’s Injury Prevention, Treatment and Management Effectively Guided By Allied Health Services Australia.

1. Request a no obligation meeting and company assessment with Allied Health Services Australia in order to clarify company goals, current injury rates and areas of concern.
2. Allied Health Services Australia will develop a comprehensive, individualised, multilevel plan and discuss its content, cost and implementation with the company prior to its initiation.
3. Officially engage Allied Health Services Australia by way of standard service agreement.
4. The procedure of each program and how it is to be effectively implemented will be discussed and determined with the company.
5. Data will be collected continually throughout the course of engagement so that injury rate, return to work pathways and overall cost savings can be monitored.
6. Close and continuous communication will occur between Allied Health Services Australia and the company to ensure smooth progression of all employee programs.
7. Regular review and updating of the programs will occur to ensure that the company’s package remains relevant and absolutely effective at all times.
8. Allied Health Services Australia will gladly assist with the development of sound company policy and procedure as requested to ensure optimal documentation and adherence to national OH&S policy.