Managing federal workers' compensation injuries and costs.
BACKGROUND
Federal Employees' Compensation Act injury rates and claim costs benefit from injury prevention and case management efforts. The Department of Labor Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment data on lost time injuries and illnesses do support injury prevention and case management activities.


METHODS
The management efforts of the Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, and Department of Labor were examined to determine whether more is needed to support injury prevention and case management efforts.


RESULTS
Data on Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment goal 3 metrics should be provided to safety and occupational health (SOH) personnel to support injury prevention and case management efforts.


CONCLUSIONS
Injury prevention and case management data need to be made available to SOH team members to prevent injuries and lower claims costs.


CONCLUSIONS
Actionable information must be provided to SOH that will facilitate case management and injury prevention programs and lower costs.
From the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program (Drs Mallon and Grizzell), Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md; Occupational Safety and Health (Ms Holland), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, Installations and Environment, OASN (EI&E), Washington, DC; and 4725 Albemarle St NW (Dr Hodgson), Washington DC 20001.
Timothy M
TM
Mallon
Tifani
T
Grizzell
Leslie
L
Holland
Michael
M
Hodgson
D019090:Case Management; D003363:Cost Control; D035082:Federal Government; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States; D059030:United States Department of Defense / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014942:Workers' Compensation / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*