What if we could stop the cycle of lost productivity time due to accident and injury through strategic preventative planning?
We believe utilizing your benefit plan in a pro-active manner tied to productivity and safety results that we can.
Consider the typical cycle of a claim:
· Injury/accident is reported
· Claim is submitted for wage replacement
· The claim is classified
· The person is assessed
· The claim is given a status
· Treatment is recommended
· Recovery is expected with a return to work (not all the time)
· Claim is managed until finalized
Clearly if we are going to make an impact, we must strategize PREVENTION for BEFORE the injury or accident takes place. It’s unfortunate, most companies and by the same token employees don’t think about the physical and emotional aspects of their job until it is too late. How many times do we hear, if only I did…before….
Working with employers and human resource professionals, we can.
The Industrial Athlete
We consider those who work the jobsites, physically using their bodies to get job done Industrial Athletes. Working long hours in the elements, they lift, bend, push, and move in identical ways that a typical sports athlete would, sometimes working longer hours. However, unlike the professional sports athlete, preventative care is not part of the routine and therefore injuries to the neck, back, shoulders, hips, and knees is often considered a byproduct of this profession.
· Slips, trips, and falls
· Overexertion and muscle strains
· Lifting injury
· Crashes or collisions
Impact to productivity
When employees are not able to work, productivity fails, more strain is placed on co-workers to pick up the “slack”, jobs lose money, and corporate revenue falls. It is a well-known domino effect.
Maintaining quality performance involves TWO strategies working simultaneously. Understanding where the benefit plan can be used in a preventative manner to coincide with safety and productivity requirements and then effectively communicating the offering to employees on a regular and on-going cadence linking the topics to the safety and performance messages.
A culture shift
Quality performance is seen in those companies that work to align their benefit offering to the expectations of the job. Just as human resources will hire for specific skill sets matched to the job, so too should the benefit plan be matched to the actual needs of the employees to perform in a safe and efficient manner.
This in turn:
· Spreads engagement
· Promotes the compensation offering
· Reduces time lost
· Increases productivity
· Stimulates safe and healthy work environments
· Minimizes accident and injury
· Creates a real return on investment through profits
We develop and manage flexible employee group health benefit programs for companies by focusing on accident/injury prevention, increasing performance measures, because we know healthy employees are safe employees, are top performing, engaged employees.
Why consider implementing Industrial Athlete benefits?
Valuing staff means wanting them healthy and active for the long term. Aligning benefits to safety and productivity is a long term approach to preventative care.
Let’s have a conversation.
Reach out if you would like to explore your corporate benefit options, like:
· Building “Best-in-Class” benefits
· Analyzing current coverage to ensure best match to needs.
· Flexible models best suited to various classifications of employees
· Using health spending accounts as the non-taxable bonus to align with the Group RRSP
Note: this was written without the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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