Goals of preventing or reducing workplace disability

Drag and drop options on the right-hand side and submit. For keyboard navigation…SHOW MORE disability management proactive employer practices with the goals of preventing or reducing workplace disability¸ intervening early in the face of risk or injury¸ and providing coordinated management and rehabilitation functions to promote workers’ recovery and safe and timely return to work duty to accommodate legislated responsibility of employers to accommodate workers who are attempting to return to work following an injury or illness via changes in job tasks and/or the work environment to enable workers with a temporary or permanent disability to perform work productively functional ability assessment a standardized assessment of an injured or ill worker’s ability to perform job tasks that is completed by a member of the health care team treating the injured worker gradual work exposure a type of light-duty accommodation where job demands slowly increase until the workers are performing the full requirement of their pre-injury jobs light-duty work workplace accommodation where workers return to a job that is less demanding than their previous job physical demands analysis (PDA) a standardized evaluation of the physical and cognitive demands of a job completed by a person familiar with the job