• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Prevention Link

Disability Prevention at Work

  • Occupational Disability Response Training
  • Return to Work
  • The Lighthouse Initiative
  • Home
  • About
    • App Download
  • Services
    • Occupational Disability Response Training
    • Return to Work
    • The Lighthouse Initiative
      • Information Guides
  • Events
  • Order Items
  • Instructor Zone
  • Awards
    • Award Recipients
  • Testimonials
  • Resources
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin

Level Four: Return to Work

Duration: 30 hours Prerequisites: Levels 1 and 2

The fourth of six certification courses offered within Prevention Link’s core curriculum, is designed for participants who will or currently assist injured workers, individually or collectively, through a therapeutic return to work (RTW) and provides workplace parties with the tools necessary to develop strategies that ensure successful outcomes.

Through the exploration of leading research, law, and evidence-based best practices, participants learn:

  • The principles of good return to work practices and the Duty to Accommodate;
  • Legal lessons from precedent-setting cases and their practical use;
  • Barriers to successful return to work and their elimination using the social model of disability and therapeutic return to work principles;
  • An in-depth comparison between older methods of disability management and the newer progressive disability prevention model;
  • The paradigm shift from management to prevention; and
  • The roles of the parties involved (employer, an injured worker, representative, H&S representatives) including their rights and responsibilities in the process.

Return to work and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) are presented with respect to the Act and Board policies.  The hierarchy of RTW job opportunities, the definitions used, the roles of the parties, dispute resolutions and penalties are covered.  The Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC) and return to work are discussed with a comparison of WSIB and OHRC obligations.

Upcoming

On April 23
In Port Stanton

Core Courses

  • Level One: Rights and Obligations
  • Level Two: Benefits and Services
  • Level Three: Appeals and Dispute Resolution
  • Level Four: Return to Work
  • Level Five: Medical Orientation
  • Level Six: Occupational Disease

Topical Courses

  • Workplace Mental Health Injuries
  • Electronic Evidence
  • Workers’ Compensation 101
  • Return to Work 101
  • Mental Health First Aid
  • Mental Health 101
  • Principles of Accommodation Law
  • Occupational Hearing Loss
  • Hearings in Writing

COPE Local 343 logo Copyright 2023 Prevention Link. All rights reserved. Contact

Brought to you by OFL logo

The views expressed in this publication are the views of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) and Prevention Link and do not necessarily reflect those of the province of Ontario and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).