What is a Transitional Work Program?
A transitional work program (return to work) is a must-have occupational therapy program, especially for companies with moderate to high risks of work-related illnesses and injuries among their employees. Here are a few things that both employees and employers considering transitional work programs must know.
Where Are They Provided?
Transition-to-work services are typically offered by the employers at the workplace. But emphasis must be made that the evaluation of the worker’s suitability to return to work should be conducted in a clinical setting, since health-related issues must first be determined.
This is the case with the occupational therapy programs offered by any of the Healthpointe clinics, such as the one in Ontario by Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Montclair, and Chino. The clinic’s occupational therapists will closely collaborate with the individual worker as well as his doctor and employer throughout the transitional work program. This ensures that the worker makes a successful transition to work.
Who Can Benefit?
Individuals who have experienced illnesses and injuries, but have since recuperated, will benefit from the programs. The level of recuperation should not contraindicate effective and efficient workplace participation.
Occupational therapists usually look at the following aspects in determining that the individual is ready to return to work:
- Capable of resuming work, which can either be his previous work or modified work
- Able to tolerate the workplace’s environmental demands
- Capable of negotiating the workplace environment
What are the Benefits?
On the part of the individual worker, the benefits of a transitional work program include:
- Productivity due to meaningful work roles and responsibilities
- Healing, and the opportunity to prevent de-conditioning because of disuse
- Regain functional abilities
The employer also benefits from the individual’s return to work. The expenses related to training new workers, paying out disability payments, and missing out productivity can be minimized.
Call any of the Healthpointe clinics, such as the Perris clinic near Nuevo, Sun City, Canyon Lake, Homeland, Romoland, and Lakeview, for more information about transitional return-to-work programs.
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