Injuries and illnesses are inevitable in the workplace, however, how they are addressed can significantly impact the safety of your work environment. The most effective and efficient way to manage workplace injuries and illnesses is through implementing or using an Injury Reporting Centre.
How does an IRC work?
An Injury Reporting Centre involves having a dedicated team that directly contacts individuals in the aftermath of an incident.
Therefore, having an IRC enables you to have:
- Swift recommendations for action
- Liaise effectively amongst all parties involved (yourself, staff members, other stakeholders such as insurers, treating doctors, and treatment providers).
What are the benefits of Injury Reporting Centres?
Injury reporting centres allow businesses to report injuries promptly when they occur which is crucial to minimising worker’s compensation premiums. At Recovery Partners, our Injury Reporting Centre includes a comprehensive range of tools. By harnessing the capabilities of our Injury Reporting Platform and Safety Compliance Reporting features, we help to ensure that your legal obligations are met and reduce potential associated costs.
Specifically, the benefits of this include:
- Receive rehab consultation as soon as possible
- Prevent injuries from worsening
- Improve return-to-work outcomes and time frames
- Reduce internal management
Using an IRC not only enhances workplace safety culture but also allows you to have the time and resources to focus on key things within your business.
What are the risks of not having an Injury Reporting Centre?
Conversely, without implementing an IRC within your workplace, your business can face a number of risks including:
- Minor musculoskeletal injuries are directed to a medical centre for treatment. This approach can be more expensive, time-consuming, and less effective.
- General medical practitioners may lack familiarity with the workplace environment and the employer’s capacity to offer modified duties.
- Injured workers treated by general practitioners can get entangled in a system that doesn’t emphasize returning to work promptly, prolonging the employee’s recovery timeline.
- Large organisations may encounter challenges responding to workplace injuries due to poor communication systems.
- Supervisors may lack appropriate training for effective injury management.
How can Recovery Partners’ Injury Reporting Centre help your business?
Our IRC operates as a 24-hour service managed by our team of experienced allied health consultants dedicated to assisting injured workers. Our team will streamline all aspects of the reporting process and ensure that all your legal obligations, including safety compliance reporting and occupational injury reporting, are efficiently met.
An IRC can help you:
- Save you time
- Reduce costs
- Increase productivity
- Streamline reporting requirements
- Generate data to be assessed
Recovery Partners continues to deliver outstanding results with our overall RTW success rate standing at 99% for our customers.
Want to find out more?
Our services are available nationwide. For more information about our services contact us.
Our consultants love to have a chat, so go ahead and give us a call on 1300 OHS RTW (647 789) or email enquiries@rrp.com.au
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Disclaimer – these articles are provided to supply general safety information to people responsible for OHS in their organisation. They are general in nature and do not substitute for legal and/or professional advice. We always suggest that organisations obtain information specific to their needs. Additional information can be found at https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/Â