The workers’ compensation system, processes and insurers often hold the employer liable for the full claims costs.
At ABILITY GROUP, we advocate for clients and partners to secure the best possible outcomes for their businesses and injured workers. From our experience, businesses often face wrongful liability for actions and decisions that an individual made years before joining the current company. If businesses fail to adopt proactive or preventative measures, they struggle to decline claims related to degenerative diseases.
Degenerative Disease – A Business Burden
Early engagement is vital to reducing claims costs and speeding injured employees’ return to work. ABILITY GROUP also recommends pre-employment assessments to evaluate candidates’ ability to meet role requirements.
In a 2011 Media Release by the Australian Heart Foundation the quoted research that indicated that too much sitting increases your risk of developing heart disease by 50%. The article goes on to state “Some people sit for up to 16 hours a day – as much as 70-85 hours a week! Over the last 10 years, we’ve studied the impact that too much sitting has on the body in terms of developing heart disease, type 2 diabetes and a string of other ailments. And the results are as compelling as they are alarming.”
For further information, please refer to the following articles:
Source: Sourceable
Title: Is A Sedentary Workplace Killing Us?
Read Time: 2 Minutes
Source: Australian Heart Foundation
Title: Sitting Down is Killing Us?
Read Time: 2 Minutes
Source: Insult and Injury (Commentary from Tasmanian Occupational Physician, Dr Peter Sharman on the redesign of workers’ compensation systems to improve health outcomes)
Title: Degenerative Disease – too heavy a burden on our compensation systems?
Read Time: 4 Minutes