RETURN TO WORK ACT 2014 - SECT 24

RETURN TO WORK ACT 2014 - SECT 24

24—Early intervention, recovery and return to work services

        (1)         The services that may be provided under this Part ("recovery/return to work services") may do 1 or more of the following:

            (a)         provide for the physical, mental or vocational assessment of a worker;

            (b)         provide advisory services to a worker, members of the family of a worker, an employer and others;

            (c)         assist a worker in retaining, seeking or obtaining employment;

            (d)         assist in the training or retraining of a worker;

            (e)         assist a worker to find or establish appropriate accommodation;

            (f)         provide equipment, facilities and services to assist a worker to cope with any injury at home or in the workplace;

            (g)         provide assistance to a person who may be in a position to help a worker to overcome or cope with an injury;

            (h)         provide necessary and reasonable costs (including costs of travel, accommodation and child care) incurred by a worker in order to receive or participate in any services;

                  (i)         provide anything else that may assist in achieving the objects of this Part.

        (2)         The services provided to a worker may recognise that if a return to work is not reasonably practicable in the short term that the services may assist a worker's overall recovery by assisting the worker to be restored to the community at the beginning and to return to work in the medium or longer term (recognising that some workers may have minimal prospects of returning to work at all due to the seriousness of the injury).

        (3)         Action to determine the most appropriate recovery/return to work services to be provided to an injured worker must be taken as early as possible after the worker suffers the work injury.

        (4)         The Corporation must take reasonable steps to ensure that a reasonable level of recovery/return to work services are provided to an injured worker taking into account the nature and extent of the worker's injury, the circumstances of the worker, and any other relevant factor.

        (5)         Recovery/return to work services will be provided by persons accredited, approved or appointed by the Corporation.