In order to improve your return-to-work rates, you must first instill a program designed to do so. By implementing an on-site physical therapy protocol to your current workers’ comp program, you can increase your programs return-to-work rates and thus lower workers’ comp costs.

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Preventing injuries is a great way to reduce your worker’s comp claims. More importantly lowering injuries creates a happier harder working healthy staff. Preventing injuries in-house is a top down program. It must be not only created by managers, but also supported and nurtured through monitoring and progress metrics.

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Danny Sanchez of PhysNet Physical Therapy will be participating in the physical therapy portion of the Industrial Rehab Discussion at the WCI tradeshow. Here’s an overview of the discussion. Focused primarily on Return to Work (RTW) programs.

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Food services and hospitality are high risk areas when it comes to employee injuries. High employee turnover and an increasing part-time workforce add to the risks for hotel restaurants.

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Employees in the hotel industry are at a high risk of injury. In fact hotel workers are 51% more likely to be seriously injured enough to be away from work. The cost of workers compensation injuries can account for upwards to 48% of the cost of payroll!

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Health care premiums have become an accepted cost of doing business in today’s market. However, health care of any kind is a hot button issue in the news today. Recent changes in the law and general economic changes have caused premiums to rise.

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When injuries occur most times it’s far too easy to simply let the TPA take the reins and file the paperwork. You don’t know when the employee will be back. You don’t know where and when they are receiving treatment. Here’s a few ways to fill in those gaps and put the process firmly back under you control.

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Dealing with the fallout from an on the job injury is tough on everyone. From management to the people in the same job as the injured worker. Having employees injured and away from work for long periods of time is bad for business and bad for employee morale.

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