Benefits of Early Incident & Injury Engagement
Early engagement with workers compensation is critical on many fronts. Assisting an injured worker is paramount for businesses, yet the impacts don’t stop at just the injury. Early engagement with an injury or workers compensation claim can have numerous other benefits. At times, many businesses are unaware of the hidden or potential impacts.
Below are 5 key reasons why it is critical to have early incident & injury engagement with workers compensation claims.
- Reduces Recovery Time – early diagnosis of an injury will speedup treatment and often reduce recovery time, which becomes important in returning the injured employee to work and thereby minimising lost-time as well as related costs.
- Saves Money – Depending on the client’s size, early engagement with a workers compensation claim will enable plans to be established to control and manage costs. Claims costs can quickly and severely impact your workers compensation premium with claims experienced policies impacting for 3 years.
- Employee Engagement – when an employee is injured and away from the work site early and regular engagement is critical to keep the injured employee connected. In extreme situations, psychological claims can result.
- Minimise Customer & Business Impacts – early engagement can often assist the injured employee return to work on suitable or full duties more quickly. In doing so the impact to other workers who often need to cover the injured workers responsibilities will be minimised and also the impact to customers/clients.
- Reduce Future Risk – early engagement with injuries at times will identify the cause and corrective actions can be taken to reduce the risk of future claims.
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