A 2004-2008 ministry compliance program helped reduce workplace lost-time injury rates by 20 per cent, or more than 50,000 incidents.

Source: http://www.news.ontario.ca

Challenge

• Regulatory Compliance – are you compliant with all regulations relating to employee health?
• Managing WSIB premiums and NEER Ratings – Your WSIB NEER rating can have a significant impact on your premiums (and bottom line)
• Ministry of Labour issues – Do you have outstanding MoL orders? Are you compliant with all health related regulations?
• Safety Sensitive Positions – If you have people performing safety sensitive jobs, are they physically capable of performing those tasks safely?
• Medical Surveillance – How do you demonstrate that your organization is doing everything possible to ensure that employee health is not being adversely affected by working conditions?
• Occupational versus non-occupational injuries – Are you paying for injuries that were not caused by your working conditions?
• Corporate Liability – Are you doing everything possible to protect your company and its’ directors from liability?
• Best Practices - Are you aware of, and implementing the best practices for health issues?

Solution

The Focus Workplace Ltd. program review service will identify any areas of employee health where you are not in compliance. This is a simple review of your existing programs and an action plan to address areas that are not up to standards.

The Focus Workplace Ltd. Return to Work and Case Management tools help you to minimize the time an injured employee is off work. By engaging with us early in a case, we can help you avoid lengthy delays in bringing an employee back to work.

Being able to demonstrate your effective medical surveillance programs is critical in satisfying your Ministry of Labour obligations. It is not enough to say that you are not damaging your employee’s health. You must be able to demonstrate that you have an effective program in place. Focus Workplace Ltd. medical surveillance programs ensure that your employees are not being damaged by their work. We provide documentation for your policies and procedures that is legally defensible.

Focus Workplace Ltd. helps you identify and document the requirements for your safety sensitive positions. Our medical screening programs ensure that your employees are able to safely conduct their jobs.

Focus Workplace Ltd. post offer screening programs identify and document pre-existing conditions. Our Independent Medical Evaluations can also identify non-occupational causes for an injury.

Focus Workplace Ltd. consulting services help you protect both your company and its directors from liability by ensuring that you are compliant with all regulations and can demonstrate best practices.

Focus Workplace Ltd. has considerable knowledge about best practices from other companies and other jurisdictions. We bring this knowledge to your firm.

Role of Focus Workplace

Focus Workplace Ltd. will develop and implement programs that minimize employee health related risk.

Contact Us

Anne Graham, Health Services Coordinator
Phone: 519 896-3330
Email: agraham@focusworkplace.com

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