Line managers and workers need to be able to:

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• Recognise when a colleague is struggling to cope with symptoms or injury

• Respond to anyone who reports symptoms or is off work

• Quickly and easily evaluate someone’s work ability (i.e. how they feel they are coping with work and health)

• Identify any obstacles to staying at work or getting back to work

• Manage workplace obstacles

• Arrange reasonable modifications to the job for a period of time (not for ever)

• Help people build up gradually as they recover

 

 

Supportive workplaces allow people to recover while they are working