Our fully qualified occupational physicians provide convenient, compassionate care for your employees. In our clinics or at your jobsite, we are committed to helping you achieve a healthy, productive workforce. Focus Workplace Ltd.’s physicians are available for a number of services including Priority Assessments and Consultations.

Priority Assessment Program

An employee is injured at work – you want the best treatment possible and you want it fast! Wait times for non-life threatening injuries in a hospital’s emergency department can sometimes take hours.

The Priority Assessment Program allows an employee, who has received a non-life threatening injury, to be seen by a Focus Workplace Ltd. Physician that same day. If the employee works evenings or nights and injure themselves, first priority will be given to that employee the following business day. The Priority Assessment Program will save the employee and the employer valuable time and effort. The Focus Workplace Ltd. Physician is motivated in keeping the employee at work either on modified duties and/or by prescribing a rehabilitation program that will assure the employee the quickest return to regular duty.

Our physicians are dedicated to:

• Provide urgent care at their office.
• Prescribe, arrange and monitor the rehabilitation process.
• Help your injured employee return to a useful job as soon as possible.

Consultation Services

On request; the physicians of Focus Workplace Ltd. provide objective medical consultation. Whether you require assistance with Disability Case Management or opinion on injuries being treated by other health practitioners, our occupational specialists are available to help you implement your Return to Work Program in the most efficient manner possible.

On site or in our clinics, the choice is yours. You require an occasional consultation to clarify medical status of an injured employee? Prefer scheduled visits to your workplace to monitor modified duties? The professionals of Focus Workplace Ltd. offer extensive, flexible options.

To access a better standard of care for your injured employee, contact us at
Focus Workplace Ltd.

Testing for drugs of abuse in the workplace began in the 1980’s. Initially a program for safety sensitive positions, it continues to be the standard with the Department of Transportation.

Today, more and more companies are screening for drugs of abuse in safety sensitive positions. A safety sensitive position has been defined as one where the employee’s responsibilities may impact the health and safety of themselves, coworkers and / or the public. Studies show that over 70% of alcoholics and illicit drug users are employed. Drug – Free workplace programs are most common in aviation, rail, transit and commercial transportation industries.

An effective program consists of a few key elements:

     1.    A formal written policy
     2.    An Employee Assistance Program
     3.    Methods for detecting illicit drugs use (ie. Urinalysis)

A Medical Review Officer (MRO) is a physician trained by the Society of Addiction Medicine to review and interpret urinalysis test results. Under strictest guidelines, our MRO determines whether a legitimate medical explanation could account for a “confirmed positive” result. The donor has an opportunity to provide evidence of a legally prescribed drug through their doctor or pharmacist.

Safety is everyone’s concern. Protect your employees. Protect yourself.
Contact Focus Workplace Ltd. to learn how we can help.

Focus Workplace Ltd.'s Occupational Nurse Specialist can offer on-site services to your employees. Services provided include: Disability Case Management; monitoring Return to Work Programs and on-site emergency response.

The Occupational Nurse Specialist will also coordinate such comprehensive Services as: Audiometric Screening ; Designated Substance Testing, Forklift Medicals; Vision Screening; Pulmonary Function Screening; Wellness Seminars and Flu Shot Clinics.

For more information, contact Focus Workplace Ltd.

It is our goal to assist you in the coordination and clarification of occupational and non -occupational injury / illness assessment, rehabilitation and surveillance. Focus Workplace Ltd.’s Disability Case Manager (DM) will institute a purposeful Return to Work Program and minimize your employee’s time away from the workplace, while ensuring the needs of the employee are met.

Program benefits include:

• Access to a Focus Physician
• Disability Case Managers that specialize in Occupational Medicine
• Medical File Review and Processing as required
• Return to Work Programs designed specifically for individual needs and job   requirements
• Gradual, work hardening and safe return to work programs
• Reduced lost time expenses
• Reduced replacement costs or downtime
• Increased productivity
• Increased employee morale
• Additional health care providers as necessary
• Storage of Medical Files

Clear guidelines are available for all injuries / illnesses whether treatment is through a Focus Workplace Ltd. provider as well as for employees who choose to seek treatment from other health care providers.

The goals of our Disability Case Management Program are clear: SAFE, EFFICIENT, FOCUSED and COST EFFECTIVE management of WSIB, STD and LTD cases.

Disability Case Manager:

The Focus Workplace Ltd. Disability Case Manager (DM) will work with your employee and their health care provider to facilitate a prompt, safe return to work. This allows you to maintain a neutral position relative to your disabled employee.

The Focus Workplace Ltd. DM will;

• Conduct medical reviews
• Maintain contact with all health care providers, WSIB (where necessary), and your    Human Resource Department
• Assess appropriate length of time off
• Offer restricted duty
• Recommend job modification
• Coordinate the physical demands analysis as required
• Set up a return work program
• Complete necessary documentation and letters as required
• Offer consultation services
• Come on-site to facilitate any requirements

The DM will assess each case and recommend the next action required according to the WSIB Guidelines and employer protocols.

Preventing occupational injuries and illness is the responsibility of everyone at the workplace. However occupational and non-occupational injuries and illness’s do occur therefore it is important for you and your injured worker to minimize the human and financial impacts by focusing on getting the worker back to safe and useful work as soon as medically possible.

Most injured/ill workers can return to some type of work even while they are still recovering. Returning to daily work and life activities can actually help in the recovery process. Research shows that the longer a worker is off work due to injury or illness, the less likelihood there is of that person returning to work.

The Return to Work (RTW) process can be complicated and involves many participants, including: the employee, the employer, the Case Manager. the Health Care Providers and WSIB (in Occupational injuries/illnesses). Any confusion or misunderstanding of any part of the process has the potential to create barriers to RTW as well as create unnecessary delays.

The Focus Workplace Ltd RTW program coordinates all these participants in the development of an individualized RTW plan. Our resources of Health Care Providers will assure that proper diagnosis and recommended modified duties will lead to the quickest return to regular duties while ensuring the medical interests of the injured employee. An individualized RTW plan will lay out all the steps that need to be taken to return the employee to his regular duties. For samples of these plans please click here.

For more information on our RTW plan please contact us.

Reduce the Risk!

A Focus Workplace Ltd. medical evaluation provides an independent, impartial diagnostic service. Clinical examinations can be conducted by a single physician with significant expertise in disability legislation or by a highly integrated multi-disciplinary team of specialized clinicians. This level of expertise ensures examination integrity, with decisive reporting. Our evidence based program will reduce the risk of surcharges, future costs and WSIB overhead increases by focusing on:

• Clarification of diagnosis and impairment
• Prognosis – “What does the future hold?”
• Documentation of complaints/appearance and behaviour
• Management options to optimize the Return to Work process
• Adhering to the highest principles of ethical conduct

Our primary goal is to prevent further disability or disease by providing the highest level of quality care for an injured worker, resulting in lower WSIB premiums for you.

Focus Workplace Ltd.'s physiotherapy services are customized to meet the requirements of your workplace and become an extension of your occupational health strategy. We are capable to provide many of our physiotherapy treatments on-site. For the more complex cases, therapy may have to be conducted at one our fully equipped facilities. We currently have several facilities strategically located throughout the golden triangle region; (Cambridge, Guelph, and K-W) which will help reduce employee time away from workplace.