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Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
Permanent Disability
The most extensive and potentially far-reaching efforts undertaken by the Commission are the ongoing studies of workers’ compensation permanent disability in California.
The manner in which California rates and compensates injured workers for total and partial permanent disability has enormous impact on the adequacy of their benefits, their ability to return to gainful employment, the smooth operation of the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) adjudication system, and the cost of the workers’ compensation system to employers.
Incorporating public fact-finding hearings and discussions with studies by RAND and other independent research organizations, the CHSWC projects are focus on with policy issues regarding how California workers are compensated for permanent disability incurred on the job. These efforts are assisted by a CHSWC permanent disability policy advisory committee, comprised of interested members of the workers’ compensation community. This section also covers temporary disability benefit issues.
Memorandum to Christine Baker, Executive Officer of CHSWC regarding "Analysis of ratings under the new PD schedule, through June 2007 
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Memorandum to Christine Baker, Executive Officer of CHSWC regarding "Analysis of ratings under the new PD schedule, through January 2007 version version
Evaluate and Identify Impact of Changes to the Temporary Disability Benefit, 2007 version version
CHSWC report: Permanent disability schedule analysis, February 23, 2006 
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Report: An evaluation of California’s permanent disability rating system, RAND, 2005 full report version - summary version
Evaluation of California's permanent disability rating schedule: Interim report, RAND, December 2003 version
Initial wage loss analysis
Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System" RAND, 1998 
full report version - summary
Project Description
Status: completed
Permanent disability - private self-insured
Permanent Disability - Private Self-Insured - A study of earnings loss, replacement, and RTW for
workers' compensation claimants, RAND, 2003 version
Project description
Status: completed
Impact of local economic conditions on wage loss
Trends in earnings loss from disabling workplace injuries in California: The role of economic conditions,
RAND, 2001 version
Project description
Status: completed