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WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 143E Return-to-work and injury management plans

WORKERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988 - SECT 143E

Return-to-work and injury management plans

(1)  If a worker suffers a significant injury, the employer must ensure that any return-to-work plan, or injury management plan, that is required under the employer's approved injury management program to be prepared in relation to a worker who has suffered a significant injury, is prepared within the period specified in that program.
(2)  A worker's return-to-work plan or injury management plan, and any amendment to such a plan, is to be prepared, as far as is reasonably practicable, in consultation with –
(a) the worker; and
(b) the worker's employer; and
(c) the worker's primary treating medical practitioner; and
(d) the employer's insurer, if any; and
(e) the worker's workplace rehabilitation provider, if any; and
(f) the worker's injury management co-ordinator.
(3)  A worker's approved return-to-work plan or approved injury management plan, and any amendment to such a plan, takes effect from the day on which the worker and the worker's employer consent to the plan or amendment.
(4)  If either a worker or a worker's employer refuses to give consent to an injury management plan or a return-to-work plan, or an amendment to such a plan, the injury management co-ordinator may notify the Tribunal under section 143Q about the matter.
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(7)  If a worker or the worker's employer does not take all reasonable steps to comply with any requirements of the worker's approved return-to-work plan or approved injury management plan, the worker or the worker's employer may notify the Tribunal under section 143Q about the matter.
(8)  The –
(a) preparation of or giving of consent to a return-to-work plan, or an injury management plan, in relation to an injured worker; or
(b) implementation of an approved return-to-work plan or an approved injury management plan in relation to an injured worker –
is not an admission of liability in respect of any claim that may be made by the worker under this Act.