Preventive absenteeism policy: can you prevent absenteeism ?

Your employee calls in sick. Could you have prevented it? absenteeism has many different causes, only one of which is a medical cause. A common assumption when it comes to absenteeism is that someone in absenteeism is physically or mentally ill. That is by no means necessarily the cause. Reduced job happiness, an unstable home situation and an unhealthy organizational culture, for example, can also result in absenteeism . The good news is, as a manager, you can influence many different causes of absenteeism and thus prevent it.

Part of this is the preventive absenteeism policy you are implementing. An absenteeism policy is designed to prevent and reduce absenteeism within your organization. The absenteeism policy details how you and your employees deal with absenteeism: what are the steps when someone enters absenteeism ? Who supervises absenteeism? Do you have a basic contract with a health and safety service provider? What preventive measures do you take? Also consider the legally required PMO and the RI&E. As an employer, you are required to implement policies that ensure a healthy and safe working environment for your employee. De Arbodienst supports you and can relieve you of some or all of this burden.

You would like to keep your employees sustainably employable. Not only by establishing preventive absenteeism policy , but also by working on a healthy organizational culture. By working on a healthy organizational culture and good leadership, you can influence absenteeism and its prevention. At De Arbodienst , we see absenteeism as a management opportunity! Therefore, you should also actively work on appropriate leadership within your organization. De Arbodienst also offers (personal) leadership training for this purpose. As a manager you can work on preventing absenteeism by maintaining a dialogue with your employees, creating clear expectations and giving them the feeling that they are seen.

De Arbodienst supports you both in drawing up the preventive absenteeism policy and in implementing it as soon as absenteeism is around the corner. It is also possible to have the PMO or the RI&E carried out through De Arbodienst . Is there anything we can do for you? If so, please contact us on 088 031 32 00 or send an e-mail to servicedesk@dearbodienst.nl. We will be happy to help you with the right approach to absenteeism!