- Title
- Organisational factors influencing the return to work process for injured workers: using social theory to inform practice
- Creator
- Southgate, Erica; James, Carole; Guest, Maya; Kable, Ashley; Rivett, Darren; Bohatko-Naismith, Joanna
- Relation
- Workplaces: Safety, Social Implications and Expectations p. 1-19
- Relation
- Safety and Risk in Society
- Relation
- https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=32684
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The economic and human costs to industry from workplace injury are substantial. Whilst there is priority to prevent injury, more recently attention has also been placed on the processes and systems that best return injured workers back to the workplace in a safe, timely and sustainable manner. The benefits of returning injured workers to work are widely acknowledged, however the organisational factors that facilitate or impede this process are not well understood. The aim of this chapter is to examine the range of organisational factors that assist or impede return to work for injured workers, in this case nurses. The chapter draws on social theory to provide a micro-meso-macro framework to interpret empirical data from a qualitative focus group study of RTW coordinators employed within the Australian health industry. The chapter focuses on meso level or organisational factors affecting the return to work process. Return-to-work coordinators are employed to assist injured workers to return to work. While previous literature has emphasised the ability of the RTW Coordinator to positively act to facilitate return to work, this individualistic focus does not adequately account for the range of meso or organisational factors that act to facilitate or constrain the return to work process. This chapter identifies such factors and discusses implications for the return to work process.
- Subject
- workplace injury; return-to-work coordinators; meso level factors
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325116
- Identifier
- uon:25185
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781620812693
- Language
- eng
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