WSIB has a campaign to eliminate workplace accidents called Road to Zero. In one of my earlier blogs, I wrote that I thought this was impossible. I still believe this today, unfortunately. Accidents happen all the time. The whole point of safety in the workplace is to reduce and/or eliminate them from happening but they continue to happen. With the new Rate Framework to [...]
A recent conversation with a new disability case manager sparked this blog. 'Since the employer is paying my salary, I work for the employer and have their best interest in mind. Right?' Wrong! Your job as a disability case manager is to 'sit on the fence' and represent BOTH sides with integrity and diligence. We do our job by representing the employer but not [...]
There hasn’t been too many times in my 30 year career in disability management where I’ve met an employee that has been too eager to return to work, but they do pose a big problem when you do have one. disAbility claims management seems to focus on the continuous effort of case managers to move the employees along to a return to work on [...]
Doctors are extremely busy professionals and will provide a ‘note’ regarding an employee’s ability to return to work or to stay off of work when requested. ‘Does it suffice for your work environment’ is the question? The answer is, ‘it depends’. If you provided the doctor with clear expectations as to what needs to be on the note to assist you in the return [...]
With over 30 years as an Occupational Health Nurse in Ontario and I thought that toxic environments were slowly fading but not so much. While we continue to struggle with increasing awareness about Mental Health issues in the workplace, reducing our workplace injuries and managing our absenteeism, a toxic workplace negatively feeds the souls of many employees and management team alike. It has the [...]
This is definitely one of my pet peeves. Rest assured, the insurance carrier you think you have managing your short-term disability, long-term disability and WSIB, ADJUDICATE your claims only! If you are an employer, or a case manager working for an employer, you need to manage your insurance carriers as well as your employees’ claims. The primary purpose of insurance carriers is to adjudicate [...]
Be clear why you are here. You do have a life's purpose and there is a way to find out what it is. All too often we live life one foot in front of the other following a journey that was never ours to begin with. We follow our parents’ wishes, or our good friends’ path or worse yet, we have no direction to [...]
In Jack Canfield’s book, The Success Principles: How to get from where you are to where you want to be, he talks about a variety of principles, 64 in total, guiding you to get the life you’ve always wanted. In my last 2 blogs, we talked about Success Principle #1 – taking 100% responsibility for your life, along with being clear why you are [...]
Staff members leave their positions for a variety of reasons, but the number one reason that they STAY and EXCEL is the corporate culture. They are looking for somewhere inclusive, where they feel valued and appreciated for their hard work. According to WhatIs.com, corporate culture is the pervasive values, beliefs and attitudes that characterize a company and guide its practices. You can almost think [...]
You have the power to make anything happen. So, why haven’t you? Find out what Jack Canfield says about it. National Bestseller, Jack Canfield, provides 63 success principles in his book, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where you are to Where you want to Be. His first principle, which is the foundation for the remaining 62 principles, is that we must take [...]
