Breaking with tradition and redefining the disability equation: the Southern Californian Edison experience.

Southern California Edison formed a single, new disability prevention and management organization: Employee Services. This department aggregated the formerly scattered programs dealing with the entire disability continuum from injury prevention through claims and rehabilitation to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance and occupation research.

The future of disability management is ... integration.

The synergy that results from the integration of disability and health care innovations can significantly improve both productivity and profitability, recent experience shows. Such integration also links employees and employers in a way that achieves continuous improvement of work life, further enhancing individual and corporate performance.

Benchmarking health and disability benefits in the energy and communications industries.

A survey of the 140 largest energy and communication companies in the United States marks the first attempt to identify best practices and trends relating to health care and disability activities in these industries. The results provide insights into the vital connection between the costs of disability and the costs of health care.