Conducting Workers Compensation Investigations
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Teri Morning
Webinar Description
Most employers care greatly for providing a safe place to work for their employees and want to provide safe working conditions, which includes providing appropriate workers compensation benefits in the case of an occupational injury or illness.
In the event of an accident in the workplace, employers are required to perform a thorough, objective, professional investigation. When any workplace accident occurs, some degree of confusion follows. In the event of an accident with injury, if the accident investigation does not support the details of the injury, it may also be necessary to review the validity of any related workers compensation claim(s). Such a review can uncover previously undetermined details regarding the reason for the accident. Such circumstances warrant a review from those who run responsible companies.
Good accident investigation procedures can heighten safety awareness on a daily basis and cause safety to be in the front of everyone’s mind every day. Such best practices include good processes for reviewing workers compensation claims.
The presence of effective safety investigation protocols lessens the probably of an accident occurring as unsafe conditions can be discovered before an accident can occur. The presence of solid workers compensation investigation protocols lessens the likelihood of dubious workers compensation claims occurring.
Agenda
- The interplay between OHSA and Workers Compensation
- How safety, accident and WC investigations differ from other types of HR related investigations
- Understanding how the psychology of emergencies affects effective evidence collection and accident investigations
- Policies, procedures and protocols to have in place today to avoid WC claim problems later
- Indicators of professional investigations
- Signs that a WC claim may be questionable or exaggerated
- How to handle dubious WC claims
- What to do when employees offer conflicting information regarding another employee’s WC claim. How to take a complaint
- How to interview witnesses
- What to do when people will not cooperate
- Report writing tips
CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION
Continuing HRCI Credit
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Continuing SHRM Credit
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Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
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