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Are you an employer who can provide on-the-job training?
Employers play an important role in helping injured or ill workers return to meaningful employment and a productive life. Return to work also reduces the financial impact of workrelated illnesses and injuries on workers, employers, and the workers' compensation system. The Department of Labor & Industries is looking for on-the-job training opportunities. Arranging this training is one way that L&I helps injured or ill workers return to the workforce.
On-the-job training can benefit you as well as the worker you help
If you are willing to provide on-site training in the skills that a worker needs to perform at the level expected in your industry, L&I can offer you: Trainees for hard-to-fill jobs -- an opportunity to evaluate a worker prior to permanent hiring Training fees to compensate you for your time (for up to two years, depending on skills needed for the job) Savings on your L&I premiums and protection from risk if the worker aggravates the original injury or experiences a new work-related injury or illness. (For more information, refer to L&I's pamphlet, Preferred Worker Program.)

You will have a fully trained candidate to consider for a permanent job
You do not have to commit to hiring the worker once training is completed. However, a recent vocational survey showed that companies that invest in a worker's skills often retain the worker. In addition, training can reduce your turnover: in recent research by the Construction Industry Institute, one company reduced turnover from 7 percent among untrained workers to 0.6 percent among trained ones.1 Finally, because trained workers have better skills and work more safely, training can reduce your industrial insurance costs and improve productivity.

Contact an L&I consultant
If you can teach a worker new skills, we want to hear from you.

Northwest Washington
Rick Freitas
Phone Fax E-mail 360-416-3050 360-416-3030 [email protected]

Pierce County/Central Peninsula
Steve Hagoski
Phone Fax E-mail 253-596-3874 253-596-3881 [email protected]

Central Washington
Jack Patton
Phone Fax E-mail 509-886-6571 509-886-6510 [email protected]

King County
Peggy Halstead
Phone FAX E-mail
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Southwest Washington
Sally Irish
Phone Fax E-mail 360 -902-4837 360-902-5437 [email protected]

Eastern Washington
Candace Shroll
Phone Fax E-mail 509-324-2593 509-324-2657 [email protected] PUBLICATION F280-033-000 [06-2009]

206-515-2818 206-515-2820 [email protected]

Olson, Sandra, "Training is good for your bottom line." Daily Journal of Commerce, March 27, 2008.