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Workshop #2 - Solving the Duty to Accommodate and Complex Return to Work Issues 
 

Date and Price

  • October 21 2008
  • $375.00 + $18.75 (GST) = $393.75
Did You Know?
  • The average cost of a WSIB claim is $98,000 (an increase of 40% since 2002)?
  • 85% of performance and attendance issues involve use of 'sick' time?
  • Use of Short term disability has more than doubled since 1997?
  • Employers will spend 80% of your human resources time managing disability for less than 20% of your employees?
  • The Ontario Human Rights Commission received over 40,000 inquiries in 2006 with 2,337 formal complaints being launched

What Can You Do?
Attend this workshop and you will leave with solid practical strategies to use in managing workplace and non workplace injuries and illness.

  • Hear from employers how to make accommodation and production work together.
  • Hear from employees how to make accommodation effective.
  • Hear from health care professionals ways to get the information you need manage your employees
  • Hear from the experts ways to manage your employees with disabilities

Agenda:
  • Return to Work with Complex Cases – Identification of complex cases
  • A Real Case – An employee presents their experience
  • Dealing with Mental Health Conditions in the Workplace
  • Chronic Pain and Return to work
  • Is it really a Performance Issue
  • Addictions and Substance Abuse in the Workplace
  • An accommodation checklist to ensure due diligence with duty to accommodate
  • Accommodation from an employers point of view
  • Resource Development for Complex cases
Who Should Attend?
  • Human Resource Professionals
  • Occupational Health Professionals
  • Health and Safety Professionals
  • Return to Work Coordinators
  • Disability Management Professionals
  • Occupational Therapists
You Will Leave The Workshop With:
  • A tool kit of practical strategies and resources that will reduce absenteeism and increase productivity
  • Practical strategies to improve management of individuals with
    • Mental health issues
    • Chronic pain and progressive illnesses,
    • Family status issues
    • Performance and medical issues combined
    • Attendance issues
  • Tools to facilitate realistic and productive return to work plans
  • Tools to assist with communication to all stakeholders
  • Strategies to ensure that you document for legal compliance and risk avoidance
  • A practical tool to determine your duty to accommodate and “Undue Hardship”

You can't afford to miss this day that is packed with resources, tools and strategies.

Locations for October 2008

Mississauga – October 21st, 2008

Holiday Inn Select
2565 Argentia Rd.
Mississauga, Ontario
L5N 4G8
905-542-2121

Mention “Gowan Health workshops” and get a reduced hotel rate.

Your investment in this workshop will be returned to you with a network that you will want to keep forever and solve some of those complex cases!!

Your investment in this workshop will be returned to you with lower WSIB costs, earlier return to work, less unproductive modified work and more productive employees.

Call Gowan Health at 1-888-752-9954 for information regarding future workshops

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