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2. Early Return to Work: For the Injured Worker
3. Your Recovery Your first step after an injury at work is to focus on getting well.
4. Texas Department of Insurance
The Division of Workers Compensation can help give you the information you need to safely return to work.
5. Early Return to Work You want to be able to return to your regular job as soon as possible.
But, your injury may keep you from being able to go back to it right away.
So, you may have to change your job a bit
6. Early Return to Work When your injury keeps you from being able to go back to your regular job right away, your return to work might be described as:
7. Early Return to Work This may be a temporary change to your regular job such as:
8. Benefits of Early Return to Work Have better and faster recovery
Are more likely to have a job to go back to
Remain active and productive
Retain job skills
Retain company benefits
Get support from your co-workers while you heal
9. Stay in Touch With your doctor
10. Your Doctor It is easy to stay in touch with your doctor through your appointments:
Go to your doctor appointments, and
Follow your doctors recommendations for recovery
11. Your Doctor Take advantage of your appointments and talk to your doctor about going back to work.
12. Your Doctor Tell your doctor about:
What you do in your regular job
Other jobs in the company (that you dont normally do) that you might be able to do temporarily
This will help you and your doctor figure out what work you can do safely.
13. Stay in Touch With your employer
14. Your Employer From the time you are first injured, call your employer regularly to let them know how you are doing.
This helps your employer know that you are interested in going back to work when the doctor says it is safe for you.
15. Your Employer When the doctor says that you can go back to work, talk to your employer and let them know what kind of work the doctor thinks you can do safely.
16. Your Employer If the doctor tells you that you cant go back to your regular job right away, ask your employer:
17. Working together
18. Working together Insurance carrier/adjuster
Attorneys
Private rehabilitation services
19. Dont Give Up! Although sometimes it may seem difficult, dont give up. If you follow these steps, then you should be on your way back to your normal routine both at home and on the job.
20. Dont Forget! Focus on getting well
Talk to your doctor
Keep in touch with your employer:
Supervisor,
Human Resource Department, or
Other point of contact with your employer
Work toward returning to your regular job, full-time
Dont give up!