Today, companies are faced with an ever increasing challenge when it comes to managing health and safety costs. They are torn between adopting a pro-active approach to safety or reacting to events. New ideas and alternatives as well as legal counsel can prove useful in helping managers and business leaders make the decisions that can improve the human and financial performance of their companies.

In their quest to be the best at what they do, companies are faced with workplace rules and environments that often appear to limit their ability to move forward. Regardless of the importance or nature of the company's activities, it is its people who work there that require workplace accident and occupational disease prevention programs, that require impact studies on the effects of workplace accidents on workers and on the company itself, and it is with the health of the company in mind that managers and business leaders must become effective at managing the financial aspects of health and safety.

Today's businessman must play a more pro-active role in managing health and safety by knowing and applying the rules to accident prevention programs and event reaction programs. In striving to reach their goals and objectives, business leaders must constantly adapt to new ways of managing the work environment in which health and safety.

Managers at all levels of the organization whether private, public, non profit corporations, or government offices (federal, provincial or municipal,) who are concerned or faced with the planning, the management, the day to day activities or the reorganization health and safety in the workplace.

• Increase the productivity of your workforce;
• Realise annual financial savings;
• Manage the three aspects of your health and safety file;
• Compensation for injured workers;
• Financing the insurance plan;
• Prevention of workplace accidents and diseases;
• Administer the rules and procedures;
• Develop a pro-active approach to managing your health and safety file.      

The important elements of the Acts relevant to health and security:

• The Occupational Health and Safety Act
• The Workplace Safety And Insurance Act
• Basic elements of the WCBO financing rules
• Management of the industrial accidents
• Absence rate control and costs
• Relevant forms
• Calculation of the compensation indemnities

The duty to cooperate in the return to work:

• Employers' and workers' duties
• Providing available suitable employment

Applications for review and appeals:

• Standard methodology

Expert reports:

• Professional resources
• Notice of hearing
• Analysis
• Follow up

Prevention:

• Comittee (mandate)
• Effectiveness criteria
• Prevention activities
• Success stories
• When working safely becomes a way of life

Accident Inquiry and analysis:

• How to lead an inquiry
• Appropriate and effective forms
• Using the inquiry reports for prevention
• Making a correction plan
      

The follow up of an industrial accident:  from the day of the accident to the day of the hearing:

• A study in three steps
• Step 1: Health care: options, possible actions and appeals possible during this period
• Step 2: Evaluation: same sequence as in Step 1
• Step 3: Market re-entry plan: same sequence
• Sequence detailed graphic