Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 452 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS › Title 452 CMR 4.00 - Vocational Rehabilitation › Section 4.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Amendment to the Individual Written Rehabilitation
				Program
, as used in 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean any addition,
				deletion, or substitution in the employment goal, scope of services,
				responsibilities, or costs of the individual written vocational rehabilitation
				plan.
Catastrophic Injury
, as used in 452
				CMR 4.00, shall be one in which an individual has sustained loss of function
				involving, but not limited to, any of the following conditions:
(a) mangling, crushing or amputation of a major portion of an
				extremity;
(b) traumatic injury to the spinal cord that has caused or may
				cause paralysis;
(c) severe burns that require burn center care; or
(d) serious head injury, loss of vision in both eyes, or loss
				of hearing in both ears.
Determination of Suitability
, as used
				in 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean an evaluation of an injured employee as to
				appropriateness for vocational rehabilitation services by a vocational
				rehabilitation review officer employed by OEVR, referred to in M.G.L. c. 152,
				§ 30G.
Feasibility of Vocational
				Rehabilitation
, as used in M.G.L. c. 152, § 30H, and 452 CMR
				4.00, shall mean the practicality of recommending vocational rehabilitation
				services with respect to the cost-benefit ratio of such services, predictable
				return to function and duration of future employment, and the injured
				employee's pre-injury wage.
Functional Limitation
, as used in 452
				CMR 4.00, shall mean the residual effect of physical or psychiatric injury or
				occupational disease as related to capacity to work.
Individual Written Rehabilitation Program
				(IWRP)
, as used in 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean the source document
				for the injured employee's individual rehabilitation program, referred to in
				M.G.L. c. 152, § 30G, which lists the services, costs, and
				responsibilities of all participants and which is developed by an OEVR
				certified rehabilitation provider but approved by the office of education and
				vocational rehabilitation.
Mandatory Meeting
, as used in M.G.L.
				c. 152, § 30G and 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean the initial interview between a
				workers' compensation recipient and a vocational rehabilitation review officer
				employed by OEVR.
Necessity of Rehabilitation
, as used
				in M.G.L. c. 152, § 30H and 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean circumstances in
				which an injured employee can not return to his or her former job with his or
				her former employer without job modification or job redesign, or placement in
				another job with or without retraining because of the functional limitation
				resulting from his or her injury.
Qualified Rehabilitation Counselor
, as
				used in 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean any person who is approved to serve workers'
				compensation recipients pursuant to
				452 CMR
				4.03(2).
Reasonable Incidental Costs
, as used
				in 452 CMR 4.00, shall mean the cost of travel to a rehabilitation program
				site, as well as other expenses directly related to the rehabilitation program
				without which the injured employee would be unable to participate.
Successful Rehabilitation
, as used in
				452 CMR 4.00, shall mean 60 days of consecutive employment in a job compatible
				with the IWRP.
Systemic Injury
, as used in 452 CMR
				4.00, shall mean an injury which affects an entire body system, such as the
				respiratory or neurologic system, as opposed to an injury which limits function
				in one area, such as a muscle sprain or strain.
Team Meeting
, as used in 452 CMR 4.00,
				shall mean a special meeting with OEVR inclusive of all parties involved in the
				vocational services being administered to an injured employee.
Transferable Skills
, as used in 452
				CMR 4.00, shall mean any combination of learned behavior, natural talents, and
				work-related skills which can be adapted from one work setting to
				another.