ReturnToWorkResources.com - New Website Provides All the Essential Components to Build an Effective Workers' Compensation Return to Work Program

    WEST PALM BEACH, FL, November 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bottom line, despite the economic downturn employees are still getting injured everyday and employers are still struggling to get them back to work successfully. When treating physicians issue light duty restrictions employers must have a Return to Work Plan that can be implemented immediately. The biggest challenge for employers is navigating the workers' compensation system, accessing the right information and creating proactive policies that link human resources with workers' compensation best practices.

http://www.ReturntoWorkResources.com guides employers from policy development to getting injured employee back to work and everything in between.

Are Return to Work (RTW) Programs Still Viable in this Economy?

The answer is easy - in tough economic times businesses can not afford to overlook return to work programs, because indemnity or lost wage payments are one of the key drivers of workers' compensation cost. If you opt to keep the employee out of work, you risk paying for lost wages or indemnity benefits until the employee exhausts the state mandated benefits. Indemnity payments impact your experience modification and ultimately drive up the cost of your workers' compensation premiums, as well as, your cost of doing business. Workers' compensation is also the gateway to employment litigation.

The potent recipe for long term workers' compensation disaster - decreasing payroll and increasing cost of injuries. So as companies try to manage their bottom-line, if they fail to manage their workers' compensation cost simultaneously they are building a cataclysmic cycle which will end in higher workers' compensation premiums and an increased cost of doing business, says Margaret Spence, President of Douglas Claims & Risk Consultants, Inc. and the driving force behind http://www.ReturnToWorkResources.com.

Making workers' compensation return to work information accessible and affordable for all employers is our goal," says Spence. The new website is aimed at providing real-time injury management and return to work techniques to employers of any size and in any industry. When it comes to getting injured employees back to work successfully - large employers have the same challenges as small employers. Having the right resources at the right time can make a huge difference in any workers compensation claim outcome.

www.ReturnToWorkResources.com focuses on linking workers compensation return to work strategies with proactive human resources policies. The website resources include:

- State Specific Return to Work Information
- Sample Policies and Procedures, Articles and Implementation Guides
- ADA and FMLA Resources
- Training: Webcasts and Seminars
- Community Forum, Templates and Tools
- Case Studies
- and much more.

ReturnToWorkResources.com is a cost effective, end to end, turnkey solution to the challenge of getting injured employees back to work successfully - even in today's economic climate.

About ReturnToWorkResources.com - We deliver a comprehensive suite of powerful workers' compensation return to work tools for human resource managers, risk managers, supervisors, insurance agents and PEO organizations. ReturnToWorkResources.com is a cost effective, end to end, turnkey solution to the challenge of getting injured employees back to work successfully.

About Douglas Claims & Risk Consultants, Inc - We help companies build a more successful organization by learning how to strategically align Injury Management, Human Resources Best Practices with Organizational Leadership, to achieve bottom-line results in their workers compensation program. DCRC is the leading provider of workers compensation seminars through their http://www.WorkCompSeminars.com website and Injury management resources through their http://www.ReturnToWorkResources.com website.

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