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The Consensus Based Disability Management Audit® (CBDMA®) is a highly calibrated, reliable and weighted tool used for benchmarking an organization's disability management program. From this scientifically developed benchmarking tool has now emerged a much shortened Workplace Disability Management Assessment® (WDMA®), which allows workplaces over the course of approximately 4-6 hours to obtain a highly accurate snapshot review of their current disability management performance.

Our Disability Management Audits provide:

• A detailed analysis of current and potential claims and premium rate increases.

• A gap analysis to determine the relative strengths and weaknesses of an organizations' Disability Management Program which includes recommendations on how to achieve best practices.

• An audit tool to determine current level of compliance to the Code of Practice for Disability Management.

• A monitoring tool, which, when administered at regular intervals, reveals relative increases or decreases in effectiveness for each audit area measured.

• A corrective tool, to identify program deficiencies and highlight remedial action.

• A program promotional tool, maintaining Disability Management concepts in Worker consciousness and demonstrating management's commitment to Disability Management values, goals and principles.

Who would want to take the Audit?

Both the Consensus Based Disability Management Audit and the Workplace Disability Management Assessment® tool are being used in a variety of settings around the world. Any organization that wants to improve its Disability Management Program should consider this audit. There are three main reasons why organizations want to improve their Disability Management Programs:

• it's the law. - Canadian Supreme Court rulings, the Human Rights Act and Provincial Human Rights Codes make it clear that employers are legally required to help assist disabled Employees back to work.

• it's good business. - Work accidents cost the Canadian economy  about 10 billion dollars a year in direct and indirect costs. For companies, disability costs can be extremely expensive, typically in the range of $2 million per year per 1,000 Workers. Effective Disability Management has been shown to reduce these costs by greater than 50 percent.

• it is the socially conscious thing to do. - Effective Disability Management Programs allow individuals who acquire a disabling condition to continue to work and avoid potential poverty. Currently, more than one million skilled Canadians (equal to 6.5 per cent of the workforce), have some kind of disability, but persons with disabilities account for just over two per cent of the Canadian workforce.