There is a good chance one of your employees may experience a workplace or personal injury or illness at some point in their career with you. Not only does this create a disruption in the personal lives of your employees but also disruption to the department and the work you do for your customers and [...]
Jen Arnold at Redesigning Wellness interview Jason Parker about the Worker-centric Approach to Work Disability Prevention. https://redesigningwellness.com/2019/02/129-preventing-work-disability-through-a-worker-centric-model-with-jason-parker-president-of-centrix-disability-management-services-inc/
Nowadays, workers’ compensation is facing many problems and challenges. From the opt-out movement and constitutional concerns, to erosion of worker benefits and the Grand Bargain, to the race to the bottom to control costs, and to the various challenges on how to deal with delayed recovery. As a result, many of these concerns have led [...]
“Work disability prevention has evolved from being a component of disease outcomes studies, to a separate and growing research discipline. In part, this is due to recognition that work outcomes often do not correlate with other health outcomes; the causes of work disability are multiple, complex, and often distinct from associated health conditions or treatments; [...]