New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - REG 15I

15I Category 1 employers must have return-to-work co-ordinator

(1) A category 1 employer must:

(a) employ a person to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer, being a person who has undergone such training as the guidelines may require, or

(b) engage a person in accordance with such arrangements as the guidelines may from time to time permit to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) The following are examples of the arrangements that the guidelines can permit for the purposes of this clause:

(a) the engagement of a person under an arrangement with a person or organisation that provides return-to-work co-ordinators to employers,

(b) an arrangement under which a person is engaged on a shared basis by 2 or more employers.

(3) The guidelines can require an employer to obtain the approval of the Authority before entering into an arrangement for the purposes of subclause (1) (b).

(4) The guidelines can impose requirements with respect to the training, qualifications and experience of persons who may be engaged to be return-to-work co-ordinators under subclause (1) (b).