| Abstract |
This guide shows best practice and also offers simple, practical advice and suggests steps you can take to help employees following injury, ill health or the onset of disability. It aims to help you reduce sickness absence, improve competitiveness and the productivity of your business, as well as protecting the well-being of your employees. It will also be useful to trade union and other employee representatives. Contents: Preface; Foreword; Steps to manage sickness absence and return to work; Introduction; Understanding the employers' role; Managing return to work; Recording sickness absence; Keeping in contact; Planning and undertaking workplace adjustments; Making use of professional or other advice and treatment; Agreeing and reviewing a return to work plan; Co-ordinating the return to work process; Developing a policy on return to work and putting it into practice; Appendices; References. |