SICKNESS RATES IN COMPANIES AS A DAILY PR OBLEM

Company related work inability analysis, carried out by the compulsory sickness insurance funds, can develop a considerable communicative di mension. Such statistics serve to deliver a quantitative framework of work inability i.e. apportionment of work inability as to duration, ag e, sex, diagnosis groups and cost allocation fur a company. These stat istics can be monetised and transferred into appropriate intervention measures as part of company policy. Within the cooperative framework w ith the compulsory sickness funds, the Institute for Occupational Safe ty and Health, has gathered experience on how companies can deal with sickness rates and on how sickness rates be successfully reduced by se lective workplace health promotion activities.