I would be grateful for a copy of your action plan too!
Hi Carr
I would be grateful for a copy of your action plan too!
regards
Andy
--- On Tue, 9/2/10, Carr Barnes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Carr Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Sickness absence/ role of OH
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, 9 February, 2010, 15:22
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the feedback; it was a really enjoyable
> experience and I got really positive feedback from the line
> manager's saying they felt much more empowered for when
> having those "challenging conversations" with
> employees.
>
>
>
> Senior management met with their direct reports monthly and
> agreed actions going forward for whcih the direct reports
> were held responsible. This forum was used to boost
> confidence and share best practice on case management. I
> attended for the last 30 minutes but refused to attend for
> the whole meeting as it was a "management" meeting
> not a health meeting. Some manager's were performance
> managed out of the role as a result but were happy with
> this. I think having senior management buy in from the start
> was a huge positive but they were so desperate for any
> constructive support I was pushing on an open door.
>
>
>
> I can see if i can track down my old action plan if
> anyone is interested?
>
> Carr
>
>
> On 8 February 2010 21:59, Carr
> Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> I used their model combined with the HSE
> guidance/stats for a project and wrote an action plan
> clearly delineating management /HR and OH responsibility.
>
> As part of it i insisted all stress & musculoskeletal
> absences be referred day 1
>
>
> All cases over 35 days (in line with that 5 week point
> for decreasing chance of return) were actively reviewed
> weekly.
> Senior management bought in and managed the
> manager's performance.
> We worked closely with the unions explaining our aims
> (active health management with resulting benefit to employee
> and knock on benefit to employer) and got their
> support
> We rolled out a targeted education programme on
> absence management to managers with but rather than just
> churn out the policies like old training had we cherry
> picked the main points and used cases to illustrate effect -
> we got a great response.
>
>
> I took a strategic rather than an operational OH role
> and manager's were encouraged to call me to use me as a
> sounding board to gain confidence; I was careful not to give
> them answers but instead encouraged them to come up with
> solutions. Confidence soon grew.
>
>
>
> We reduced sickness absense consistently by over 1.5%
> across the board.
>
> Carr
>
>
>
>
> On 8 February 2010 21:31, I D
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jane
>
> Did you go to the downlaod page at the CIPD for access to
> their free module on sickness absence with all the links?
>
> http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/hrpract/absence/absmantool.htm?IsSrchRes=1
>
>
> http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/health/occpnhlth/occhealth.htm
>
> http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/oeh/undergraduate/onlineresources/
>
>
> and the stuff at NHSemployers.orf
>
> If ya have - just ignore the above.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:21:54 -0600
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] Sickness absence/ role of OH
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> HI
> all
>
> I am
> putting together a training package for managers. Topic- you
> guessed it the role of OH in managing sickness absence. I
> would really appreciate it if anyone would be willing to
> share any work that any of you may have put together on this
> subject. I contacted the CIPD as someone mentioned that they
> do have some useful material, but I didn’t get very far as
> they cut me off!
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jane
>
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