RIVERWOODS, Ill. (MMD Newswire) July 12, 2010 -- A Field Guide to Workers' Compensation: A Holistic Approach to Improving the Health, Safety and Productivity of Human Capital by Janet R. Douglas seeks to offer practical suggestions for prevention, injury management, return to work and managing vendor performance. "Lives are lost or impaired every day in America, as a result of preventable accident or illness at work," says Douglas. "Sometimes accidents occur because profit trumps safety and sometimes because politics get in the way of effective enforcement of existing safety regulations."
Douglas uses her 20 years of consulting with companies and workplaces of all types, ranging from classrooms, offices and hospitals to manufacturing plants, coal mines, oil rigs, and meat-packing and processing factories, assisting them with accident prevention, injury management and communication programs, in an effort to aid them in accident prevention. "Everywhere I was inspired by the courage of ordinary people who go to work each day in dangerous, stressful and sometimes hostile places," she says. "They do what they have to do to feed and educate their families and to live the 'American Dream,' sometimes with devastating consequences."
A Field Guide to Workers' Compensation attempts to thwart those consequences by offering tips from experts in economics, occupational medicine and nursing, risk financing, safety and prevention, law, and claims administration. Douglas wishes to recognize the critically important role that supervisors play in both accident prevention and successful return to work and those they frequently receive no training in how to manage, mentor and discipline their subordinates. Douglas and her co-authors hope to demonstrate that a healthy, safe, well-managed work force will be productive and profitable and repay the employer's investment in its human capital handsomely.
A Field Guide to Workers' Compensation: A Holistic Approach to Improving the Health, Safety and Productivity of Human Capital is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author
Janet R. Douglas, founder and principal of Symbiocon Group, currently oversees the company's national network of human capital risk management consultants. A stroke survivor, she serves on the advisory board of the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation and Research stroke program. In addition to A Field Guide to Workers' Compensation, Douglas has published two books and various articles.
MEDIA CONTACT
Janet R. Douglas
E-mail: jandouglas@symbiocon.net
Phone: (847) 317-0400
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