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.........................................................................................................................Book DescriptionWorkplaceabsenteeism continues to be one of the biggest costs to UKbusinesses. Asurvey by the CBI and AXA PPP Healthcare shows that, in2OO2, 166million working days were lost due to employee absenteeismcosting UKcompanies £11.6bn in lost hours, overtime and temporarycover.Organisationsare therefore becoming increasingly aware of the need foreffectiverehabilitation of injured or ill employees to help reduceabsenteeismand drive down its associated costs.Tolley's Guide to EmployeeRehabilitation provides detailed coverage ofthe techniques managersneed to employ to address the issue of longterm absenteeism and toensure a faster return to work. Effectiveemployee rehabilitation hasmany benefits to an organisation such asretention of employees, soensuring business continuity; saves time andmoney on recruitment costs;gives employees a positive image ofmanagers and the organisation as awhole; and increases motivation andproductivity. Aimed at health andsafety managers, this unique handbookwill provide guidance on managingand understanding employeerehabilitation. It includes:• the benefits of employee rehabilitation• the key causes of sickness absence, including stress and musculoskeletal problems• how to effectively manage the reintroduction of the employee back into the workplace• introducing measures such as paying for medical treatment• making workplace adjustments• improving communication between involved parties such as the line manager and employee• the need for continued monitoring• all relevant legislation and regulations.........................................................................................................................Contents1. Managing Employee Rehabilitation — Val Hughes• Introduction• Employee Health• What is Occupational Health?• Why Rehabilitate Employees Back into the Workplace?• Benefits to the Employer• Benefits to the Employee• Targets of Securing Health Together2. The Role of Occupational Health in Rehabilitation — Dr Leslie Hawkins• Occupational Health and the Occupational Health Services • The Professions Which Contribute to Occupational Health Practice• The Role of Occupational Health in the Rehabilitation of Employees• Occupational Health and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995• Areas of Special Concern3. What is Rehabilitation? - Val Hughes• Introduction to Rehabilitation• Principles of Rehabilitation• The Referral Process for Occupational Health Intervention• Risk Management• Risk Assessment4. Legal Compliance — Mike Appleby• The Law, Occupational Health and Rehabilitation• Health Safety Regulation• Stress, Back Injuries, RSI and COSHH• Employment Rights Act 1996• Disability Discrimination Act 1995• Working Time Regulations 1998• Medical Records, Medical Reports and Confidentiality5. Attendance Management — Lynda A C Macdonald• Introduction• Recognising the Problems that Short-Term and Long-Term Absence can• Create Employees' Rights and Duties under their Contracts of Employment• Managing Intermittent Short-Term Absences• Sickness Absence During Pregnancy• Managing Long-Term Sickness Absence• Referring Employees for a Medical Examination or Report• Dismissal on Grounds of Sickness Absence or Unsatisfactory Attendance• Policies and Procedures6. Absence Management and Reporting —Fiona Stctvart and Jenny Chapman • Introduction• What Absenteeism Means for an Organisation • Issues for ManagementAttention • Effective Management Action Trends • EnsuringActive andEffective Reporting• Marketing the Change Programme throughout the Organisation• Evaluation and Review7. Prevention is Better than Cure — Dr Leslie Hawkins• Introduction• Primary Prevention• Prevention Strategies• Preventing Non-Work Related Illness and Injury• Secondary PreventionIndex.........................................................................................................................Author DetailsFiona Stewart, MBA - Fiona is an experienced strategic business and information managementconsultant with a strong record of significant successes in a range ofpublic sector organisa¬tions and government business enterprises. Withover ten years senior manage¬ment experience in both State andCommonwealth government, particularly in health, community service andworkers' compensation/rehabilitation, Fiona has provided leadership inthe development of organisational capability in particular related toinnovative approaches to customer interaction and service delivery,with particular focus on the health sector and remote and ruralcommunities. Fiona holds a Masters in Business qualification and hasworked in the rehabilita¬tion and worker compensation field for tenyears.Jenny Chapman BA (Hons) MCIPD PG Dip PG Cert Adv DipJenny is an independent practitioner, consultant and lecturer invocational reha¬bilitation, and has extensive experience ofrehabilitation, training and service management in Australia and theUK. Her work as a senior partner of the Rehabilitation Network includesextensive customer and employer liaison con¬cerning both individualrehabilitation programmes and organisational service pro¬vision: staffrecruitment, mentoring and training; and systems development. Jennyholds a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion, is a Member of theChartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Staff andEducational Development Association and has worked in therehabilitation field for more than 20 years. She is currently a Trusteeand Membership Secretary of the National Vocational RehabilitationAssociation.Lynda A C Macdonald MA FCIPD LLMLynda is a self-employed, freelance employment law trainer, advisor andwriter. For fifteen years prior to starting her own business she gainedsubstantial practical experience of employee relations, recruitment andselection, dismissal procedures, employment law and other aspects ofhuman resource management through working in industry. With this solidbackground in human resource management, she successfully established,and currently runs, her own business in employment law and managementtraining/consultancy. She is also appointed as a panel mem¬ber of theEmployment Tribunal Service in Aberdeen, where she lives.Lynda is a university graduate in language and a Fellow of theChartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Additionally, she hasan LLM degree in employ¬ment law.Lynda has to date written nine books on various aspects of employmentlaw, all of which have been published by well-known national publishers.Contact Lynda at: lyndamacdonald.clara.co.uk Website: www.lyndamacdonald.co.ukMike Appleby SolicitorMike is a solicitor who joined Fisher Scoggins LLP as a member in 2003to con¬centrate on representing companies and individuals in relationto health and safety and manslaughter prosecutions. Prior to this hewas head of health and safety at the national law firm of Thompsons. Heis the co-editor of Corporate Liability: Work Related Deaths andCriminal Prosecutions (LexisNexis, 2003) and the joint author of thelegal chapter in Tolley's Handbook of Disaster and EmergencyManagement: Principles and Practice (2nd edition, 2004). He frequentlywrites and lectures on health and safety issues and writes a regularcolumn for a leading health and safety magazine.Leslie Hawkins BSc PhD CBiol MIBiol MOISHLeslie trained as a clinical physiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospitalin London, where he worked until he moved to the University of Surreyin 1970 as lecturer and then senior lecturer in human biology. Hisresearch interests at Bart's con¬cerned the pathophyslology of chroniccarbon monoxide exposure, which devel¬oped into a more general interestin environmental physiology after he joined the University of Surrey.In 1984 he was appointed to the Robens Institute to establish and headan occupational health unit. This has now become the Robens Centre forOccupational Health and Safety. Leslie now holds a professorial gradepost as University Director and Director of the Robens Centre. TheRobens Centre undertakes consultancy and provides occupational healthand safety ser¬vices and runs post-graduate diploma and masters levelcourses in occupational health, occupational health nursing, hygieneand safety. He is the University Vice-Chancellor's special advisor onoccupational and environmental health. His research and consultancyinterests are mainly concerned with the health effects of environmentalfactors including light, electromagnetic radiation and air pollution.He is a consultant to a number of companies and government bodies onenviron¬mental and occupational health issues and on the management ofhealth and safety at work. He is Law Society listed as an expertwitness in the fields of health and safety and is involved in bothcivil litigation and public inquiry cases.Val Hughes BSc (Rons) PG Dip OHSM MIOSH RGNVal started her nursing career 20 years ago at Gwynedd GeneralHospital, North Wales and went on to specialise in ophthalmic nursingat Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Val continued her ophthalmic nursingcareer in London and worked at both Moorefield's Eye Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital.In 1994 she decided to leave ward nursing and went on to qualify andspecialise in occupational health nursing. Since then, she has gained awealth of knowledge, skill and experience in both the private andpublic sector. Her experiences have ranged from local government inthat of councils, NHS, Metropolitan Police Service, retail, financialcentres and manufacturing of paints, cars and printing.She became a Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Healthin 1997 and more recently successfully completed a Masters degree inOccupational Health and Safety Management at the Middlesex University.Having lived in London for the past 15 years, last year she relocatedto the North East and has been working as an Occupational Health NurseManager for an occupational health service provider..........................................................................................................................
