With less than week until the publication of the Department for Work and Pensions' report into the Employers' Liability (EL) crisis, Aon has backed moves for greater connection between occupational health and safety and EL premiums.
Aon claimed that the government is unlikely to call for fundamental change in the current system. The broking giant predicts there will be a phased approach to EL reform, including improved support for the rehabilitation of
employees.
Deborah Durkin, managing director of client services at Aon Corporate said: "The review into Employers' Liability by the Government represents a great opportunity for change (our recent survey* found that only 27% of employers thought that the current system represented value for money).
"We anticipate that there will be a much greater focus on encouraging employers to improve their health and safety performance, and thereby reduce workplace accidents and illness, and on the rehabilitation of injured employees.
"Whilst there are certainly problems with the current system, particularly in the treatment of long term diseases, we do not believe that the Government will propose fundamental reform of the insurance market or legal practice, but will concentrate their efforts on the cause of the problem, workplace accidents and illness, rather than how they are paid for."
