Is your business having difficulty managing the rehabilitation of injured workers?
Are you having difficulty finding the right person to take on the role of Return to Work Coordinator? Or is the person you appointed too busy with their workload to give the injured workers the attention they require? As a result are you finding your injured workers off work longer than hoped? Would you like to lower your workers' compensation premium with WorkCover Queensland?
ProCare Rehabilitation Solutions specialises in helping your business go one step further rather than seeing workplace rehabilitation as an extra burden.
Engaging ProCare Rehabilitation Solutions provides a cost effective solution to the demands of rehabilitating your injured workers and providing solutions to assist the injured worker to return to work. It means not having a staff member distracted from their core activities and instead you need only pay for the services you use.
ProCare Rehabilitation Solutions specialises in helping your business go one step further rather than seeing workplace rehabilitation as an extra burden.
Engaging ProCare Rehabilitation Solutions provides a cost effective solution to the demands of rehabilitating your injured workers and providing solutions to assist the injured worker to return to work. It means not having a staff member distracted from their core activities and instead you need only pay for the services you use.
ProCare works with the management pyramid to get the best outcome.
What is a Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinator in Queensland?
A Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinator, works with the employer, injured workers, doctors, allied health providers and WorkCover to develop appropriate rehabilitation strategies.
Under the Worker’s Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 employers are able to outsource their Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinator role to an external provider rather than having a full-time staff member in the role, thus saving time and money for your business, allowing staff members to focus on what they do best.
Under the Worker’s Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 employers are able to outsource their Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinator role to an external provider rather than having a full-time staff member in the role, thus saving time and money for your business, allowing staff members to focus on what they do best.
Do Queensland Employers need a dedicated RTW Coordinator?
Return to Work Coordinators are required to be registered with Q-COMP (the workers' compensation regulatory authority). Under the Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 employers are required to appoint a coordinator:
- If their annual wages are more than $4.9 million or
- If they are in a high risk industry and their annual wages are more than $1.63 million.
What does this mean to Queensland Employers?
If a claim is incorrectly managed the end result can be very costly for the employer, as the cost of the statutory claim directly affects the calculation of future workers compensation premiums. Further, if the injured worker is unhappy with the way their claim has been handled, there is a stronger likelihood that they will pursue a damages claim, which again will affect future workers compensation premiums.