Employee Worker’s Compensation Procedure
Compati Home Care is dedicated to working to prevent workplace accidents, which may cause injury to our employees.
Likewise, Compati Home Care is committed to responding immediately to workplace accidents which cause injury, to work towards reducing the probability of workplace accidents, and to ensure that any such accidents which do occur are appropriately reported and managed.
If you are injured on the job, please notify your manager immediately so that we may help you to begin appropriate medical treatment and comply with our insurance reporting requirements. Employees who delay in reporting work-related injuries may encounter difficulty when claims are eventually filed. All injuries must be reported, even if you do not need or want to receive medical treatment.
The following are the procedures for reporting an on-the-job injury:
- Notify your manager (or on-call manager after business hours) immediately. Your manager/on-call manager will obtain all information necessary from you to complete and submit the required paperwork to the office and the insurance carrier.
- Complete the incident report document and submit to your manager immediately and please be detailed on the events leading up to and during injury.
- If possible, please take a picture of the surroundings where your injury took place and forward it to your manager.
- If possible, please take a picture of the injured body part (if a non-offensive area) and forward it to your manager.
- You will be directed to a Workers’ Compensation Panel Doctor in your area. You will be drug-tested during the initial examination of your injury. Exception: For life threatening injuries you will be directed to the nearest ER. Instructions are listed under Step 5.
- At your initial doctor’s visit, you will be provided paperwork and instructions regarding your return to work It is your responsibility to submit to us all paperwork and instructions regarding your injury and your return to work to us. Please submit this information to the office no later than the next business day after your initial doctor’s visit. The office fax number is 724-260-5509.
- It is the employee’s responsibility to provide to this agency all documents that describe the status of the injury and progress of treatment after every medical exam and diagnostic test to this agency. This information should be submitted to the office no later than the next business day after your medical visit. The office fax number is 724-260-5509.
- In case of a life-threatening injury, you should go to the nearest hospital emergency room for treatment. You must then contact your manager or on-call manager that day or, at the latest, on the next business day, to report the injury and obtain further instructions. Should your injury require further medical attention, you will need to see a provider from the agency’s workers’ compensation panel.
- Complete incident report document and submit to your manager as soon as possible; please be very detailed on the events leading up to and during injury.
- If possible, please take a picture of the surroundings where your injury took place and forward it to your manager.
- If possible, please take a picture of the injured body part and forward it to your manager.
- Failure to notify your manager or on-call manager immediately following a work-related injury may result in disciplinary action.
The agency will hold a position for any employee absent due to a work-related injury. The position held may not be the same position the employee vacated. Furthermore, it could be one of lesser or greater responsibility. If the employee refuses the position, then the company may terminate the employee.
Employees returning to work from the work-related injury must have a signed release from the attending physician. The agency reserves the right to have the employee examined by a physician of its choice and abide by the physician’s recommendations. Due to the nature of the work performed by the agency and the clientele receiving services, Compati Home Care reserves the right to determine what type of work, if any, is appropriate for assignment to an employee returning to work after injury.