Disability Management Program

With Certified Disability Management Professional ( CDMP ) ( German Certified Disability Management ) used to describe people who have purchased a certificate for the competence to get the job employability of workers with health problems and improve. The main objective is to secure employment. The certificate is personal, that is, the Disability Manager must be either employed in the undertaking or acting as an external service for the company.

The certificate is based on the guidelines of the Canadian National Institute of Disability Management and Research ( NIDMAR ). The rights to use this certificate for Germany, Austria and Switzerland has acquired the German Social Accident Insurance ( DGUV).

  • 3.1 Germany
  • 5.1 International 5.1.1 North America

Concept of disability

The English term disability herein, disability, incapacity or disability. These health problems can be temporary or permanent; they can act fully or only in terms of activities restricted.

The objective of the CDMP

The certificate ensures the implementation of the following objectives through standardized, recognized and proven skills of disability managers. Because the certificate is to be confirmed annually, it can ensure that timeliness of the training even after the time of its initial.

Duties of the Disability Manager

Of the Disability management aims to reduce sickness absence days by employees through appropriate prevention and intervention measures and thereby

  • To maintain the earning capacity of workers;
  • To reduce the associated costs and organizational burdens and to get the business knowledge and experience of workers / inside; and
  • With this social power to increase the job satisfaction of employees and their union with the employer or company.

The Certified Disability Management has in the establishment and implementation of corporate integration management (BEM ) and the WHP two main tasks:

Professional and social skills

The Disability Manager supports thanks to the following, proven skills:

  • Establish Disability Management convincing
  • Know the legal system and social services
  • Use social skills and communication
  • Implement case management / impulse type (return to work )
  • Combine skill sets and job requirements
  • Understand problems and initiate appropriate help
  • Demonstrate successes of Disability Management
  • Earn trust through ethical conduct

He dedicates next to severely disabled also want to search for previous activities unfit, for a different activity. Besides the emphasis in rehabilitation he will also act preventively and is divided into a comprehensive health management of the company.

Ethical skills

Apart from the purely technical and social skills that managers must Disability formulated by NIDMAR Ethical Values ​​recognize that are continuously updated. As of 2007, these are:

Legal foundations

Germany

The German Social Code IX ( Rehabilitation Law ) requests since 2004, § 84, paragraph 2, that for employees that are longer than six weeks within one year continuously or repeatedly incapacitated, a clarification by the employer with the appropriate advocacy and with the consent and participation of the affected person is done, as the incapacity to overcome possible and predictable benefits or aid again incapacity prevented and the workplace can be obtained ( Occupational Integration management BEM). If measures are necessary to achieve this goal, the trained for Disability Manager accompanies the process active. Where necessary, the factory or company doctor is consulted.

Training, examination, certification and recertification

The training takes place in lessons with one of the licensed by the DGUV ​​partners in the education network. To test will be accepted by the chairman or the deputy chairman of the audit committee persons who meet certain requirements. Depending on the present academic degree (Master, Bachelor, college or technical college and vocational training, or High school with vocational training) a certain period of activity as well as continuing education hours must be detected in Disability Management staggered. Persons without academic qualification may be admitted after five years and 150 hours of training in disability management (as at 31 July 2007).

The activity in the disability management needs to be confirmed by the employer for self- corresponding reference documents must be submitted.

The exam consists of 300 case-based and case- independent multiple-choice questions, which defines a neutral inspection agency at the University of Cologne and weights. An oral examination is currently not provided. The exam lasts eight hours and is carried out at the premises of the University of Cologne.

On successful completion of the test the candidate on the basis of the "International Disability Management Standard Council" ( IDMSCTM ) will be awarded the certification document.

Courses are regularly offered in Germany by the Staff College of the economy ( FAW) gGmbH in Hamburg, the licensed partner of DGUV ​​.

The certificate is valid one year. For use in the following year, 20 hours of continuing education, a regular activity in Disability Management and the obligation to prove to the ethics guidelines.

The certificate may be withdrawn if there is evidence missing or faked or anyone who violates the Code of Ethics. The unlawful use of this certificate may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.

Companies with CDMP (selection)

Internationally

North America

  • University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada)
  • Motor Coach Industries ( MCI) Schaumburg, Illinois and locations in Winnipeg, Manitoba and North Dakota ( USA)
  • Great-West Life Assurance Company, Osborne, Winnipeg

National

  • Ford of Germany
  • Clinic Enzensberg
  • REHADAT, information system for vocational rehabilitation, Cologne
  • Essen Transport Ltd.
  • German Bahn AG
  • Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main

Schooling abroad

As of October 2005 450 graduates have passed their exams worldwide for Certified Disability Management Professional ( CDMP ) and Certified Return to Work Coordinator ( CRTWC ). 100 Canadians belong, in Germany, currently have 300 Disability Manager (as of 15 November 2005) qualified for the CDMP: A top position for Germany, which has played a large role in the recent treaty between 1 NIDMAR and the HVBG. As of September 2009, there are 760 active certified CDMP'ler in Germany. At the beginning of 2010, the first 10 CDMP'lern was handed her certificate in Austria.

The exam has been approved in Canada and 2004 in Germany 2003. This was followed by the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong.

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