Workers' Compensation Code of Practice (Injury Management) 2005 (WA)
Western Australia
Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981
This code was repealed by the
Western Australia
Western Australia
Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981
This code is the
This code comes into operation on the day on which the
(1) Part 2 applies to each employer.
(2) Part 3 applies to an employer whose worker suffers an injury compensable under the Act unless —
(a) the worker has returned to the position held by the worker immediately before the injury occurred; and
(b) the worker has a total capacity to work in that position.
Part 2 – Injury management systems
The employer has to ensure that an injury management system is described in writing.
The document describing the injury management system has to include —
(a) a description of the steps the employer will take when an injury occurs at the employer’s workplace; and
(b) details of the person who is to have the day to day responsibility for the injury management system, and how to contact the person.
The employer has to ensure that a copy of the document describing the injury management system is made available to any of the employer’s workers who requests a copy of the document.
(1) The employer has to give a worker who suffers an injury compensable under the Act an opportunity to participate in the establishment of a return to work program for the worker.
(2) The employer has to take reasonable steps to ensure that the worker agrees with the content of the worker’s return to work program.
(3) The return to work program has to be described in writing.
(1) The document describing the return to work program has to include —
(a) the names of the injured worker and the employer, and any other details needed to identify them;
(b) a description of the goal of the program;
(c) a list of the action that has to be taken to enable the worker to return to work, identifying who has to take each action; and
(d) a statement as to whether the worker agrees with the content of the program.
(2) If the employer becomes aware that the treating medical practitioner has, either in a medical certificate or otherwise in writing, modified the restrictions on the work that the worker is considered to be capable of doing, the employer has to ensure that the worker’s return to work program is changed to the extent, if any, that is appropriate because of the modification.
(3) Unless the change is made in the circumstances described in subclause (2), the employer has to take reasonable steps to ensure that a worker agrees with any change to the worker’s return to work program.
(4) The employer has to ensure that any change to a worker’s return to work program is described in writing.
(1) The employer has to ensure that each of the worker and the treating medical practitioner is given —
(a) a copy of the document describing the return to work program; and
(b) a copy of the document describing any change that is made to the worker’s return to work program.
(2) The employer has to take reasonable steps to ensure that the action listed in the return to work program is taken in a timely manner.
This is a compilation of the
27 Sep 2005 p. 4387‑90 | 14 Nov 2005 (see cl. 2 and | |
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