
Business Health: Spring 2008
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The overarching theme of this edition of businesshealth is on how to more effectively manage disabilities. This is an area where employers generally have good intentions, but there are many places where trouble lurks.
A slate of singular though important changes affecting drug plans has occurred across Canada in recent months.
For Workers' Compensation plans, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the most common claim and, Ontario accounts for over 40% of all lost-time claims, claim costs, and half of all lost-time days.
In 2006, about 1,000 people died on the job in Canada, including 331 in Ontario. Mr. Mahoney (Chair, Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) speaks about a very important new campaign for the WSIB.
To assure success and longevity, any healthy workplace strategy must align with business objectives. But more Canadian organizations need to invest the time in careful planning and internal communication to meet this fundamental tenet. Three corporate examples of good starts and sustained efforts are shared.
Dr. Errol Ferguson reflects on almost 40 years of working as a physician, and the important differences in perspectives between private practice doctors and their colleagues in disability management.
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