Rest isn’t always best when recovering from a workplace injury.
Medical research shows that being active - including returning to safe and suitable work - can help recovery.
- Work can be therapy. There is substantial evidence to support the positive link between work and health (physical, mental and social health).
- Absence from work often contributes to declining health, slower recovery times, and longer duration of disability.
- Maintaining and restoring working capacity improves function, recovery and prognosis.
As a healthcare provider, you play an important role in helping return to work plans succeed, by talking to your patients about their daily tasks and providing recommendations on functional abilities and limitations that your patient can share with their employer and the WCB.
At the WCB, our goal is to help healthcare providers, employers and injured workers work together to make a safe and suitable return to work plan part of recovery.
Learn more about how you can be part of a safe return to work plan.
We’re here to help
The WCB values your time and the activities you undertake to contribute to a safe and suitable return to work for your patients who are injured at work.
If you have any questions or concerns, please be sure to call us at 204-943-4321 or toll free 1-855-9543-4321.
Find out how employees and employers (30 employees or fewer, or over 30 employees) work together with you to plan a safe return to work.