South Australian Consolidated Acts

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1986 - SECT 26

26—Rehabilitation programmes

        (1)         The Corporation shall establish or approve rehabilitation programmes with the object of ensuring that workers suffering from compensable disabilities—

            (a)         achieve the best practicable levels of physical and mental recovery; and

            (b)         are, where possible, restored to the workforce and the community.

        (2)         A rehabilitation programme may be established by the Corporation in relation to—

            (a)         a particular worker;

            (b)         workers of a particular class;

            (c)         workers suffering from disabilities of a particular class.

        (3)         For the purposes, or in the course, of a rehabilitation programme the Corporation may—

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

            (b)         provide advisory services to workers, members of the families of workers, employers and others;

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

            (d)         assist in the training or retraining of workers;

            (e)         assist workers to find appropriate accommodation;

            (f)         provide for the necessary and reasonable costs (including costs of travel, accommodation and child care) incurred by workers in order to participate in rehabilitation programmes;

            (g)         provide equipment, facilities and services to assist workers to cope with their disabilities at home or in the workplace;

            (h)         provide assistance to persons who may be in a position to help workers to overcome or cope with their disabilities;

                  (i)         disseminate information that relates to work related disabilities;

            (j)         conduct, participate in or subsidise research into any aspect of rehabilitation;

            (k)         encourage and support the work of organisations that provide assistance to workers suffering from compensable disabilities;

            (l)         do anything else that may assist in the rehabilitation of workers.

        (4)         The Corporation may admit a disabled worker to a rehabilitation programme notwithstanding that it has not been finally established that the worker's disability is compensable.