Obstacles and Factors Facilitating Return to Work of Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders: Summary of the Report on the Quebec Qualitative Study in the Electric and Electronic Sector of Workready Phase 1Stock, Susan; Deguire, Suzanne; Baril, Raymond; Durand, Marie-JoséeReport
R-298, Montréal, IRSST / Montréal, RRSSS - Montréal-Centre, 1999, 30 pages.
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Abstract
A study previously carried out in the context of the interprovincial Workready project developed the portrait of the management of workers suffering from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and identified the needs of different professionals. This project led to the production of a guide, tools and a process intended to meet the needs and respond to the difficulties expressed by companies in their practices for managing the disabilities of employees suffering from MSDs.
This guide and the intervention strategy and decision-aid tools it includes are intended to address these needs and the difficulties companies encounter when providing modified work assignments to employees with MSDs. It proposes an approach to the planning and implementation of modified work programs as well as identifies specific actions companies may take to carry out effective case management and follow-up of workers with MSD.
The decision-aid tools integrated into the guide, in the form of worksheets and forms, permit the rapid recognition of workrelated risk factors for MSD. There are three series of worksheets and forms. Each series includes worksheets or forms that are specific to each of the body regions most commonly affected by these disorders, namely the back, the neck and shoulders, the elbows, and the hands and wrists.
These tools facilitate the selection of modified work tasks with physical demands that match the injured worker's physical capacities, in an effort to avoid recurrences or aggravation of the injury and to promote rehabilitation.
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