Building Synergetic Linkage between Prevention, Compensation and Return-to-Work in Employment Injury Scheme in Asia and the Pacific
Journal Title: Niepełnosprawność - zagadnienia, problemy, rozwiązania - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 26
Abstract
Employment Injury Insurance (EII), or Workers’ Compensation Insurance, is an important part of the social security system and was originated in Germany in 1884. It can be said to be the most popular social insurance scheme and now exists in about 165 countries in the world. It has been proven that EII schemes have played a positive role in protecting workers’ safety and health, maintaining sound industrial relations and in pooling risks arising from occupational accidents and diseases among enterprises. Even so, it is also realized that the EII scheme is still facing challenges for its further development and application, especially in developing countries. As, in most of the developing countries in Asia, coverage of the scheme is still insufficient, especially for small enterprises and the excluded groups; Secondly, benefit provisions need further improvements, for example, including commuting accidents in the covered contingencies, converting the lump sum payments of invalidity and survivors’ benefits into periodical pensions with proper indexation and the introduction of physical and vocational rehabilitation benefits, and thirdly, synergies with injury prevention are weak and return to work programme in EII scheme is still unfamiliar concept in Asia and Pacific region. However, the extension of coverage of EII and enhancement of EII benefits level is on an incremental basis affected mostly by the each country’s situation in the perspective of GDP, political and historical development, informal economy portion, demography, etc. But different from these two challenges, coverage and benefits level, the synergetic linkage between EII and prevention policy (OSH) could be accomplished within each country’s own situation through building efficient mechanisms such as a mechanism for the collection and analysis of data on occupational injuries and diseases, provisions for collaboration with relevant insurance or social security schemes, coordination with other related national programmes, introduction of merit system in EII contribution collection, etc. In addition, the return to work policy needs to be considered in EII scheme for facilitating injured workers to get back to work or society
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Jooyung Kim
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