About Us
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What we do:
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission
- Workers' compensation claims
- Asbestos claims
- Seacare
Organisational structure:
Comcare is an Australian government agency that works in partnership with employees and employers to reduce the human and financial costs of workplace injuries and disease in the Commonwealth jurisdiction.
Our vision
Comcare’s vision is to achieve Australia’s Safest Workplaces.
What we do
Comcare:
- works with the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission to ensure the effective operation of the Comcare scheme. It achieves this through the regulation of:
- occupational health and safety under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991, and
- rehabilitation and compensation under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
- manages the workers' compensation claims of Australian government employees
- manages the common law asbestos claims of the Australian Government
- provides secretariat, policy and legislative support to the Seafarers' Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority (Seacare).
Comcare's outcomes
Comcare works to achieve three outcomes for the Australian community:
Outcome 1
The protection of the health, safety and welfare at work of workers covered by the Comcare scheme through education, assurance and enforcement.
Outcome 2
An early and safe return to work and access to compensation for injured workers covered by the Comcare scheme through working in partnership with employers to create best practice in rehabilitation and quick and accurate management of workers' compensation claims.
Outcome 3
Access to compensation for people with asbestos-related diseases where the Commonwealth has a liability through management of claims.
Note: these are Comcare's outcomes for 2009-10 subject to approval from the Minister for Finance and Deregulation.
Organisational structure
- View Comcare's organisational structure.
