Contracts
Invoices
Financial statements
Worksheets maintained
for L&I reports
As you do your spring cleaning,
remember to keep the right
records before purging and
shredding the ones you don’t
need. BBB is offering free
shredding April 16, at their
DuPont office. Click here for
more info!
Save money in 2016 by building
a return-to-work plan this Spring
Are you ready to bring injured
workers’ back to work with
medically-appropriate light-duty
jobs? Many employers are not
ready. Spring is a good time to
start building your businesses’
return-to-work plan. If you don’t
have a strong return-to-work
plan, you could be losing money.
Returning to work supports
injured worker recovery and
reduces the financial impact of
a workers’ compensation claim
on the worker and the employer
by helping the worker keep a
workplace connection after
an injury.
A good place to start with your
return-to-work planning is to
create modified or light-duty job
descriptions to keep on file in
case of an injury.
Other action steps to
consider include:
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Create a return-to-work
policy if you don’t already
have one.
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Before an injury occurs,
think about what light-duty
assignments an employee
could do if they were injured
on the job.
Ask your employees for their
input in creating light-duty
assignments.
Tell new hires that your
business has a return-towork policy, so should they
get injured at work, you will
bring them back as soon as
possible.
Tell physicians you have lightduty available and want to
bring your injured workers
back as soon as medically
safe and possible.
Use the Washington Stay
at Work Program to get
reimbursed for up to
$10,000 to support lightduty wages.
TORCH TALK MARCH 2016
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