week 11 Flashcards
What is the duty to accommodate?
Employers have a legal duty to take reasonable steps in policies or conditions of work, to accommodate an employee’s individual needs.
What is undue hardship
Undue hardship pertains to the significant difficulty or expense imposed on an employer in making an accommodation.
Whats a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)?
a justifiable reason for discrimination based on business reasons of safety or effectiveness.
What are the Two approaches of disability management?
Full recovery model: former approach that operated completely outside the workplace and was dictated by physician’s assessments of recovery.
Systems approach: current approach that emphasize the work and organizational context.
What are the Four financial and social indicators of workplace illness and injury?
Duration of Work Disability
Associated Costs
Sustained Return to Work
Quality of Life
Explain the early intervention?
early contact:Associated with better return-to-work outcomes.
early referral to program: Decreasing length of absences and resulting in net savings for companies
ongoing contact:Making workers feel involved in and remembered by the workplace.
Explain the early intervention?
early contact:Associated with better return-to-work outcomes.
early referral to program: Decreasing length of absences and resulting in net savings for companies
ongoing contact:Making workers feel involved in and remembered by the workplace.
whats a work family conflict?
a type of inter-role conflict in which the role pressures experienced in the work and family domains are incompatible.
Whats a health promotion program?
combination of diagnostic, educational, and behavioural modification activities designed to support attainment and maintenance of positive health.
What are Employee and family assistance programs (EFAPs): ?
designed to help employees and their family members with problems that may interfere with worker productivity, including.
What are involved in Stress management programs?
relaxation training -programs to increase social support -cognitive-behavioural skills training
What are the Three key steps of WHP programs?
Step 1: Physical or psychological assessment
Step 2: Counselling concerning the assessment findings and recommendations about personal health promotion
Step 3: Referral to in-house or community-based resources
How do you Developing a successful WHP program?
- clear policies
- responsibilities: coordinator
- training: supervisory training
- support: mangement
