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.(5) . . . . . . . .(6) . . . . . . . .(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 is not an admission of liability in respect of any claim that may be made by the worker under this Act.(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