Contact With the Workplace During Long-Term Sickness Absence and Worker Expectations of Return to Work

December 8th 2016, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
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Chapter:  Webinar
Language English
URL:  cirpd.org/Webinars/Pages/Webinar.aspx?wbID=124
Cost:  Members - $0.00
Non Members - $0.00
(CDN, HST included)
Registration Deadline: 
December 7th
CPHR Renewal Hours: 
1 hr


Presenters: 
Åsa Tjulin
Åsa Tjulin Senior Lecturer, School of Health, Care, and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University Dr. Tjulin work as a senior lecturer at Mid University, Sweden. Her research aims at generating knowledge about the significance of the workplace in return to work and health promotion through studies that explores: implementation of return to work interventions at the workplace social relations that takes place within workgroups when a worker re-enters the workplace after sickness absence, how social conditions are shaped in the return to work process who, when, when and what is learnt at the workplace during a return to work health promotion interventions for learning at the workplace and the relation to sustainable working groups and organizations

Description: 
Dr. Åsa Tjulin will discuss results from studies that concerns social relational factors and early contact with the workplace during sickness absence in relation to workers expectations to return to work. A discussion about workplace learning from return to work process will be presented - do we learn, who learns and what do we learn from RTW? You will learn: - how social contact plays out in the RTW process - how workplace actors are significant in the early contact - what is significant for a good or bad early contact - what employers need to think about

Special Notes: 
This webinar is hosted by Canadian Institute for the Relief of Pain and Disability.