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Avoiding Reinjuries in Workers' Compensation Claimants

Learn common pitfalls to avoid and ensure the potential for new claims and injuries are mitigated.

According to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the United States Department of Labor, the cumulative cost across the nation of occupational illnesses, injuries, and deaths runs in the billions of dollars. This topic will relate practical ways and methodologies designed to bring this expense down. You can expect to learn practical ways to avoid the common, reoccurring pitfalls that happen when workers' compensation claimants return to work so as to mitigate the risk of reinjuries, new claims, and even possible litigation.

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Agenda

Introduction

  • The Quantitative and Qualitative Costs of Worker's Compensation Claims
  • Risk Mitigation: An Overview
  • Management's Role in Minimizing the Potential for Worker Injuries and Reinjuries

Minimizing the Potential for Claims and the Manager's Toolkit

  • Steps to Take When Returning the Claimant to the Workplace
  • Training and Staffing Levels
  • Case Study

Workplace Safety Plans and Employee Reporting Systems

  • Recommendations for the Written Safety Plan
  • Safety Audits
  • Building Successful Employee Safety Reporting Systems

Pitfalls and Mistakes to Avoid

  • Unique Employee Relations Issues
  • Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
  • Minimizing the Risk of Legal Exposure When Returning Injured Employees to Work
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Applications have not yet been submitted for Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming CLE for this course. However, if you are interested in obtaining CLE for any of the listed states or have any additional credit questions please email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-352-9540.

This course was last revised on November 15, 2021.

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  • BCSP
     
  • This course is applicable to safety professionals. Professionals interested in credit through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), please contact the board at 1-317-593-4800, or you can access the Recertification Guide here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/pbcyp/eprz/
     
  • AR CLE 1.0
     
  • This course has been approved for 1.0 hours of CLE by the Arkansas CLE Board.
     
  • CA MCLE 1.0
     
  • Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.0 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     
  • WA CLE 1.0
     
  • This program has been approved by the Washington State Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.0 hours of A/V credit under the Law & Legal Procedure category.
     

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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Faculty

Kathleen M. Bonczyk, MBA, Esq.

Kathleen M. Bonczyk, MBA, Esq.

Workplace Violence Prevention Institute

Kathleen M. Bonczyk, Esq.

  • Attorney and Founder/Executive Director of the Workplace Violence Prevention Institute, a research organization whose motto is workplace violence may be predicted and therefore prevented
  • Former human resources executive and an attorney
  • Nationally recognized expert on the topic of workplace violence prevention
  • Has lectured and written on the topic of office safety for over two decades
  • J.D. degree, Nova Southeastern University; M.B.A. degree, Florida Atlantic University
  • Can be contacted at [email protected] or through the WVPI’s website www.workplaceviolencepreventioninstitute.org
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Product ID: 404489
Published 2021
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