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The approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institutions things to do are defined as the following:
1.Assist employers or workers with occupational accidents in formulating a return-to-work plan.
2.Occupational Accident Labor Job Analysis.
3.Occupational Accident Worker Functional Capacity Assessment.
4.Work hardening to enhance or restore the physiological and psychological functions of workers in occupational accidents.
5.Demand assessment for occupational disaster labor assistance facilities, appliances, equipment, machinery and working environment improvement, and suggestions for reasonable adjustment or job accommodation methods.
6.Occupational accident labor case management service and return-to-work follow-up.
7.Other occupational accident workers return to work assistance.
In order to handle the preceding items, the approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institution shall conduct needs assessment of occupational accident workers by specialist physicians of the Occupational Medicine Department depending on the actual needs and in coordination with the attending physicians of other departments; when the approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institution deems it necessary, you may contact the central competent authority for assistance to carry out on-site visits.

The full-time personnel in Subparagraph 1, Paragraph 2, Article 3 shall handle the following matters:
1.Provide assistance and coordination for return-to-work plan application and follow-up matters according to the needs of occupational accident workers or employers.
2.Provide follow-up functional rehabilitation services for workers with occupational accidents through interviews after interdisciplinary occupational injury and illness notification.
3.Occupational accident workers return to work tracking and referral related resources, and track referral service results.
4.Reports and statistics on the handling of the matters in the preceding article and Paragraphs 1 to 3.
Approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institutions located in Hualien County, Taitung County, Penghu County, Kinmen County and Lianjiang County may use part-time staff to handle the preceding items.

The regulations for in-service education and training for personnel in An approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institution are as following
1. Shall make the personnel specified in Article 3, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 2, Items 1, to participate in case seminars conducted by the central competent authority, for no less than 3 hours annually.
2. Shall make the personnel specified in Article 3, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 2, Items 2 and 3, to participate in the functional rehabilitation on-the-job training course administered by the central competent authority, for no less than 12 hours per year..

Approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institutions shall collect, process and utilize data on occupational accident labor functional rehabilitation cases in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Data Protection Act.

Approved Professional Occupational Rehabilitation Institutions shall formulate document control procedures to standardize the filing and preservation of relevant documents such as assessment reports and service records, and the preservation period shall be at least seven years.