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Here you will find tips for surviving an injury on the job,
useful forms, important documents and letters that you will
need to get you through the Workmen's Compensation System.
Please contact your Work
Comp or Safety Representatives immediately
if you have a work related accident. It is important
that you document the date and time of the injury and make
sure that is reported at GE Medical. Fill out the
appropriate IAM accident forms, noting any conditions
and witnesses. Call your
contacts.
They are
there to help.
IAM Accident Report
(Word)
Hospitals Reap Huge Profits from the
Ohio Workers' Comp System
An analysis
of Ohio workers' comp billing records by Care for Ohio,
which was recently featured in the Columbus Dispatch,
suggests that the Bureau of Workers' Compensation has
become the hospital industry's "cash cow."
Read more to learn how this happened.
Are
hospitals truly charitable institutions or just big
businesses that don't pay taxes?
Ohio's non-profit hospitals receive special tax breaks
that add up to nearly a billion dollars a year. But
what are Ohio's taxpayers getting in return?
Read about it in "Crossing
the Line".
Thanks
to "Care for Ohio"
and their website!
...and
for more information about Worker's Comp, see our
Work Comp page.
If you are off of work due to an injury,
please read the letter below. Note that the highlighted areas will
be filled in when you receive this letter. Make sure that all time is
covered by your doctor. If that time is not accounted for, then in all
likelihood you will not be paid for that time. If you have any questions
about this letter, contact a Work Comp Rep! It may make your return to
work a bit less traumatic!.......
Return
to Work Guidelines Letter (Revised
1/04)......
We have had
hard working employees go off on short term absences and
when they come back eager to work, they have had a difficult
time getting through the GE personnel departmental
manager. He seems to think that if the above form is
not perfectly filled out, then the employee has no rights to
return to work, even if the doctor has all of the
information on separate forms. There is a meeting with
management soon to fix this problem. Should not the
personnel manager help the employee instead of being rude
and uncooperative?
This IAM Union believes so!
If an employee becomes disabled....
click above for information
I've been hurt on the job! What do I do now?
Most workers have had the good fortune of never being
injured on the job. But what if you just did get hurt?
Would you know what to do? Do you know the steps
involved? What about a minor fall, cut or knock on the
head? What about a major life threatening injury? Take
a look at this chart (the link below) before you have to ask
yourself, "What should I do?"
Click above
Learn what to do before you get hurt on the
job!
....and here is more help on that
subject!
Information to the injured Worker....
Thanks to our Workers Comp
team for contributing the above information.
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