STAY AT WORK/RETURN TO WORK
SECTION 10: STAY AT WORK/RETURN TO WORK
A Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work (SAW/RTW) program helps to improve health outcomes for injured/ill employees, increases the likelihood of employee returning back to the work force on a full-time basis, and reduces costs for your organization.
Stay at Work planning is directed at those individuals who have sustained a minor injury/illness and do not need to lose time from work, but may benefit from temporary transitional work modifications.
Return to Work planning is directed at those individuals who have lost time from work due to an injury/illness and need to be re-introduced back into the workplace.
We recognize the importance of ensuring that employees are supported through a health-related absence due to illness or injury by:
- Addressing the potential impact of loss of income;
- Recognizing the importance of maintaining normal relationships and routines as much as possible to assist in full recovery;
- Obtaining clarification of any aspects of the illness or injury that may affect the ability to perform all or part of the job duties, and;
- Restore the employee to their fullest physical, psychological, social, vocational and economic level possible and, where possible, provide the worker with transitional duties.
