Videos
Building a Global Disability Management Footprint NIDMAR celebrates 25 years – The vision of NIDMAR being an innovator, thought leader and catalyst for best practice outcomes in more effective Return to Work for disabled workers who acquire a mental or physical health impairment while employed and at risk of losing their attachment to the workforce was driven by a collective group of senior leaders from the employer, labour, provincial and federal governments, and workers compensation communities from across the country.
In the intervening 25 years, highlights of developments are as follows: – Establishment of the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences (PCU-WHS) as a statutory, not-for-profit, post-secondary, degree granting education and research institution. – Development, validation, and promotion of Occupational Standards and professional certification examinations in Return to Work and Disability Management, now adopted in 64 countries worldwide. – Developed, tested and introduced a three-level consensus-based Return to Work / Disability Management program assessment protocol. – Launched the International Forum on Disability Management, with IFDM 2002 hosted by NIDMAR in Vancouver with the support of key Ministers from around the world as well as employer, union, workers compensation and other stakeholder leaders – a biennial congress dedicated to profiling best RTW / DM practices, emerging research and innovative statutory developments. |
The Challenge to Lead: The Rewards of Disability Management This 20-minute video documents the growth of joint, workplace-based disability management programs across Canada. This proven return-to-work model for injured and disabled workers is meeting with growing support from labour, corporate, and government leaders. |
The Final Step: The Case for Getting Disabled Workers Back on the Job This 12-minute presentation focuses on the economic, social, and personal trauma experienced by Canadian workers who acquire disabilities. |
Every 12 Seconds
This highly acclaimed 30-minute documentary underscores the human tragedy of work-related accidents.
It was June 1987 when a group of disabled forest industry workers, led by Wolfgang Zimmermann and supported by key leaders in the forest industry, unions, government and other stakeholders pulled together a production team and the financing to produce a powerful national documentary film entitled Every Twelve Seconds, so named because at the time, a disabling workplace injury occurred every 12 seconds in Canada.
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Restoring Lives, Reducing Costs: A Global Initiative
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, NIDMAR put together this video, which goes back to the beginning when a group of employer, labour and government representatives made study tours of Germany and Australia to view the progress those countries had made with regard to disability management and return to work. With that background of knowledge and contacts made both nationally and internationally, NIDMAR opened its doors in 1994.
Between 1994 and 2004, the video encompasses the development of the continuing education program, the Occupational Standards for those working in the field, professional certification examinations to meet those standards, the creation of the audit / assessment protocol, the hosting of the first International Forum on Disability Management – IFDM 2002, and the creation and publication of the world’s first Code of Practice for Disability Management.
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