Support for BC Workplaces to Assess, Improve or Develop a DM Program
This initiative is being delivered through the NIDMAR DM Program Assessment Services. It is comprised of two levels of opportunity:
A new video is available that provides details of the process involved.
The Workplace Disability Management Assessment: An employer's guide to reducing costs and retaining valuable workers
This 12-minute video promotes the benefits of undertaking an assessment of a workplace program. As Bill Dyer, then Director of Program Assessments puts it, "...we are not here to point fingers and tell people that they haven't been doing their jobs. In fact, the assessment is a supportive and confidential discussion with a consensus-based approach. And the only person who gets the report is the person who requested it." To view the video, please click on the following link: Workplace Disability Management Assessment This opportunity provides BC workplaces with a free program assessment and subsequent improvement plan of their current Return to Work / Disability Management program. The program assessments will be carried out through licensed auditors who have completed a dedicated training program in the use of the audit/assessment tools and who also have achieved the CDMP professional designation. This initiative mirrors the highly successful DM Excellence initiative launched in 2008 in BC, which resulted in dramatic, significant, and durable improvement in Return to Work outcomes, with best practices ultimately being encoded into the collective agreement language covering 150,000 workers, 4 unions, and over 200 employers in BC's health care sector. The support under this initiative will be available to all BC employers regardless of sector or size to develop and implement and/or improve their Disability Management and Return to Work programs. The Workplace Disability Management Assessment (WDMA) tool, unlike the full Consensus Based Disability Management Audit, is optimized to allow for an accurate program assessment through a face-to-face interview, conducted onsite or online, and will include in the Occupational Safety and Health element, of the 16 elements included in the assessment, questions on organizational preparedness related to a pandemic. The Assessment protocol process is administered under the auspices of the International Disability Management Standards Council (IDMSC) and in Canada is administered by the National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR) through licensed auditors. To access an Application Form to have an assessment completed of your workplace DM program, please click the following link to download the application form, complete it, scan or save it and submit it to: nidmar@nidmar.ca
Section 2 – DM Program Improvement Subsidy
The second opportunity under this component provides BC employers the option to submit an application for a subsidy of up to $7,500 to implement the gap analysis recommendations resulting from the completion of the program assessment. An Advisory Group comprised of senior level representatives from the various relevant stakeholder groups involved in Disability Management programs will review all applications for this subsidy and make decisions with regard to applications received, as well as provide overall policy and roll-out direction. To access the Application Form for the subsidy to implement the recommendations resulting from the assessment of your workplace DM program, please click the following link to download the form, complete it, and scan or save it and submit it to: nidmar@nidmar.ca WDA Grant - DM Program Improvement Application Form
For further information regarding the opportunity to assess, improve or develop a Disability Management program, please contact Steve Inouye, Director of Program Assessments at: steve.inouye@nidmar.ca Funding provided by the Government of Canada through the Canada-British Columbia Workforce Development Agreement.
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