How to Reduce Short-Term Sickness / Injury Absence

Effective management of short-term sickness and injury absence should send a clear message to all staff:

"All periods of sickness and injury absence will be closely monitored and managed, and high levels of sickness absence will not be tolerated"

This toolkit for sickness and injury absence includes:

• Sickness and Injury Absence Policy and Procedures
  
• Sickness self-certification form
• Letter confirming any discussions held with an employee about their sickness or injury absence and attendance record
  

In addition, the toolkit also includes a form managers can use to conduct a return-to-work interview, a sickness absence flowchart identifying what needs to be done, when and by whom, a  letter  inviting an employee to attend a meeting to discuss their absence and attendance record, and manager guidance notes.

Reduce your Sickness and Absence Levels

Managing sickness and injury absence also ensure employees understand that:

• The Company will treat all employees equally, irrespective of their position within the Company
  
• The Company will take disciplinary action should it need to
• The Company is committed to creating and maintaining an "Attendance Culture "
• The senior management team are dedicated to setting the right standards of behaviour and implementing policies required by the Company in order that it may function fully
  
• All managers are dedicated to attaining attendance levels and standards required

It is for these reasons that we believe in helping organisations create an Attendance Culture, not only to help staff clearly understand what is expected of them from day one of employment, but to also help managers know exactly how to address sickness absence and attendance short-comings should they occur.

By managing short-term or persistent sickness and injury absences within the workplace, your attendance levels should improve, staff may feel more motivated to come to work and managers will hopefully feel empowered that they can control sickness absence situations. All of which we hope you will agree is good for your business!

Ensure Employees Understand Appropriate Sickness

So what is the easiest way to bring about a change in attitute towards sickness absence, and that "taking a sickie" is not acceptable?

Easy, put in place a set of principals and standards everyone within your organisation can relate to and also give managers the tools to help them control sickness absence situations.

Our practical steps and easy to use documentation are aimed at helping an employer change their culture towards absence and attendance, and by helping managers deal with ad-hoc and short-term periods of sickness absence.

And best of all, once you have purchased the Attendance Management Toolkit you can use all the documents as many times as you want.

Attendance Management Toolkit

This toolkit for sickness and injury absence includes a policy, self-certification form, sickness process flowchart, return-to-work form, two letters and manager guidance notes.