Early Rehabilitation Program After Workplace Injuries

Abstract

Literatures on workplace injury indicate that there is insufficient concern by employers about programs to reinstate injured em-ployees. This article describes an intervention model, which expresses a change in the employers' policy toward workplace injuries. The intervention is an early return to work program for injured employees. It provides an integrated solution for both, the injured employees and the employers, and combines assimilation of a changed policy and a single-session group intervention for slight and medium-injured employees. The findings indicate that employer efforts at the workplace to reinstate injured employees aids the rehabilitation process.

Key Words:

• Workplace-injured
• occupational social work
• early rehabilitation