Kick Off Your New Disability Management Program
Workplace safety is more than just incentives, coffee mugs and prizes. It is arms and legs
and backs. It can be a life. Safety is an attitude that dares to say that not only are zero
accidents the only number that will be tolerated but that zero accidents are also possible.
In this motivational safety talk Richard Pimentel will explore the role that attitudes play in the safety, health and well being of every employee.
How an organization feels about safety is not only demonstrated by how the organization reacts when an employee does not work safely but also by how an organization acts when an employee chooses to work safely. The pressures of production and deadlines can push safety onto the back burner. In his speech Richard turns the heat up on safety and makes it clear that safety is something that each employee is responsible for.
While we want to eliminate every workplace accident and injury, what happens after a State employee is injured on the job and the efforts to help him or her to successfully return to work is called disability management.
The State of Montana will soon be rolling out a disability management initiative for all State Agencies. In his talk Richard Pimentel will discuss in and outs of disability management.
Among the issues he will address are:
- The human and economic costs of not doing disability management.
- How rapid return to work and help injured and ill employees to recover sooner and more completely.
- The effect of management and supervisory attitudes towards injured employees and return to work.
- The role of the supervisor in the return to work process.
- Working better with the injured employee.
- Communicating better with the local medical care providers.
- How to develop productive and meaningful transitional employment assignments.
- The role of the injured employee in the return to work and recovery process.
- Best practices of other State governments. The proven elements of successful programs.
- The next steps. What to expect and how will it affect me?
