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Support ability to work
Actions that support someone’s ability to work and allows workers with a health problem to stay on or return after illness, and to help people with a disability enter the workplace.
Good work that suits an individual’s knowledge skills and circumstances, and is undertaken in a safe supportive environment, plays a huge part in helping someone recover from illness and prevent unnecessary disability.
Too many workers leave the labour market unnecessarily due to health problems, and too few who have a reduced work capacity manage to stay employed. The culture and systems of a workplace and the mind-set of managers, need to make sure workers have the right support at the right time to maintain their ability to work.
‘We have a obligation to rigorously attack an individual's obstacles to a life at work and minimise the impact of injury on workers and the community.’ - Sir Mansel Aylward