Social Media
Comcare is on Twitter – follow us
Comcare’s Twitter account provides you with the latest updates on changes to our website, changes to legislation and guidance, work health and safety prevention tips, upcoming events, new products and services, when we are investigating a workplace incident and more.
If you don’t know what Twitter is, visit www.twitter.com and have a look:
It’s a free social networking site where people, organisations and individuals post tweets – short, sharp updates of 140 characters or less.
If you’re already using Twitter, follow us. If you’re keen to take a look at our page before signing up to Twitter, view our profile at:
What to expect
We will tweet about five times each week. We will tweet about a range of work health, safety and rehabilitation topics of interest to workers, employers and rehabilitation providers including:
- alerts about new content on our website such as news, publications and media releases
- information about our latest initiatives and education campaigns.
Following
If you follow us on Twitter we will not automatically follow you back. We may follow other twitter users who we think are relevant to our industry and audience however, if we follow you it does not imply endorsement by Comcare.
Followers
A comment made by Twitter users following Comcare_gov_au does not imply endorsement from Comcare.
Availability
We will usually update and will monitor our Twitter page Monday to Friday between 8.30 am and 5.00 pm (AEST). Twitter may occasionally be unavailable and we accept no responsibility for the lack of service due to Twitter downtime.
@Replies and direct messages
We read all @replies and direct messages to make sure any emerging themes or helpful suggestions are passed on to the right people. However, we are not able to reply individually to all messages we receive on Twitter. We only discuss general work health, safety and rehabilitation topics. We can’t talk about personal workers’ compensation claims or answer questions that breach privacy.
For specific enquiries about your workers’ compensation claim, do not contact us using Twitter. Please use the contact us details on our website:
Privacy
To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, please do not tweet personal details such as phone numbers, email addresses, or personal workers’ compensation information.
Your online security
We never ask for confidential details, like your claim number, via Twitter. Do not respond to any of these requests. If you have any concerns you can report fraud against Comcare on our website: