Putting you first at the centre of what we do. Keeping you healthy and safe at work. Supporting you when you are harmed at work. Ensuring your scheme works and is sustainable.

Safety & Prevention

• Reporting an injury or illness
  • Employer responsibilities for incident notification
  • Incident notification
    • Incident notification - Definition of terms
• Managing OHS
  • OHS regulatory framework
    • Introduction to the OHS regulatory framework in the Commonwealth jurisdiction
    • A practical guide to the OHS regulatory framework
  • Workplace consultative arrangements
  • Health and safety management arrangements
  • OHS risk management
  • OHS in contractor management
    • Outcomes from the OHS in Contractor Management workshops
• Health & safety topics
  • Abrasive blasting
    • Abrasive blasting - What are the OHS risks?
    • Abrasive blasting - Employer's duty of care
  • Alcohol
    • Alcohol - What are the OHS risks?
    • Alcohol - Employer's duty of care
    • Alcohol - Causes of alcohol misuse
  • Asbestos
    • Asbestos - What are the OHS risks?
    • Asbestos - Employer responsibilities
  • Body stressing
    • What you need to know about body stressing?
  • Confined spaces
    • Confined spaces - What are the OHS risks?
    • Confined spaces - Employer's duty of care
  • Cranes
    • Cranes - What are the OHS risks?
    • Cranes - Employer's duty of care
    • Crane operation
  • Driver fatigue
    • Driver fatigue - What are the OHS risks?
    • Driver fatigue - Employer's duty of care
  • DVT
    • DVT - What are the OHS risks?
    • DVT - Employer's duty of care
    • Preventing DVT
  • Electrical work
    • Electrical work - What are the OHS risks?
    • Electrical work - Employer's duty of care
    • FAQs on electrical safety
  • Ethylene oxide
    • Ethylene oxide - What are the OHS risks?
    • Ethylene oxide - Employer's duty of care
  • Eye health in the workplace
    • What are the OHS risks?
    • Employer's duty of care
    • Managing eye health in the workplace
  • Flood recovery
  • Forklifts
    • Forklifts - What are the OHS risks?
    • Forklifts - Employer's duty of care
    • Preventing forklift incidents
  • Hazardous chemicals and pipelines
    • What are hazardous chemicals and pipelines?
    • Dangerous goods and explosives - What are the OHS risks?
    • Dangerous goods and explosives - Employer's duty of care
    • Hazardous chemicals—notification packages
    • FAQs on hazardous chemicals and pipelines
  • Infectious diseases
    • What are infectious diseases?
    • Infectious diseases - What are the OHS risks?
    • Infectious diseases - Employer's duty of care
    • Preventing infectious diseases
  • Inorganic lead
    • Inorganic lead - What are the OHS risks?
    • Inorganic lead - Employer's duty of care
    • Preventing harmful lead exposure
  • International Deployment
  • Manual tasks
    • Manual tasks - What are the OHS risks?
    • Manual tasks - Employer's duty of care
  • Noise
    • Noise - What are the OHS risks?
    • Noise - Employer's duty of care
    • FAQs on noise
  • Office hazards
    • Acoustic incidents
    • Office hazards - Employer's duty of care
    • FAQs on office hazards
  • Plant
    • What is plant?
    • Plant - What are the OHS risks?
    • Plant - Employer's duty of care
    • Plant and plant design registration
  • Prohibited and restricted carcinogens and restricted hazardous chemicals
    • What are hazardous substances?
    • Hazardous substances - What are the OHS risks?
    • Hazardous substances - Employer's duty of care
    • FAQs on hazardous substances
  • Psychological injury
    • Costs of psychological injury
    • Psychological injury - Contributing work factors
    • Psychological injury - Workplace warning signs
    • Psychological injury - Employer's duty of care
    • Psychological injury - What can be done?
  • Slips, trips and falls
    • Slips, trips and falls - What are the OHS risks?
    • Slips, trips and falls - Employer's duty of care
  • Smoking
    • Smoking - What are the OHS risks?
    • Smoking - Employer's duty of care
    • Smoking - Reducing the risks
  • Social functions and events
    • Social functions and events - What are the OHS risks?
    • Social functions and events - Employer's duty of care
    • FAQs on social functions and events
  • Vibration
    • Vibration - What are the OHS risks?
    • Vibration - Employer's duty of care
    • Preventing vibration injuries
  • Waste
    • Waste - What are the OHS risks?
    • Waste - Employer's duty of care
• Your working environment
  • Offices
  • Construction sites
  • Major hazard facilities
    • MHF - What is a major accident?
    • MHF - Employer's duty of care
    • Regulatory requirements for MHFs
    • Major Hazard Facilities Approved Assessors
    • Major Hazard Facility notification, licencing and certification
    • MHF guidance material for employers
  • Other working environments
• Health & safety representatives
  • Information for Health and safety representatives (HSRs)
  • HSRs - Information for employers
  • HSRs - Information for employees
  • HSRs - Information for training providers
• Work Health
  • Prevent
    • Centre of Exellence Advisory Group Members
    • Terms of reference for the Advisory Group
    • Mental health and wellbeing strategies
  • Promote
    • Implementing effective health and wellbeing programs
    • Sedentary work
  • Participate
  • Case studies
  • Deliver work health

Injury Management

• Early intervention
  • Benefits and key elements of early intervention
  • Identifying early warning signs
  • Early intervention checklist
• Return to work planning
  • Steps in the return to work process
  • Case management
    • Case manager competencies
  • Rehabilitation assessment
  • Return to work plan
  • Suitable employment
    • Identification of suitable duties
    • Graded return to work
    • Work trials
    • Redeployment
• Roles & responsibilities
• Working with workplace rehabilitation providers
  • Employers - working with WRPs
  • Rehabilitation providers - how to get approved and operate as a WRP
    • How to become an approved Rehabilitation Provider
    • Nationally consistent approval framework for workplace rehabilitation providers
    • Operating as an approved WRP
    • Outcome standards
    • Training for WRPs
    • Publications for WRPs
  • Directory of Approved Rehabilitation Providers
• Monitoring performance
  • Customer Information System
    • CIS System News
    • CIS Help
    • Timing of case estimates
  • Key CIS injury management reports

Claims

• Making a claim
  • Am I eligible to make a claim?
  • How do I make a claim?
  • What does the employer need to do?
  • Frequently asked questions
• Returning to work
• Getting medical treatment
  • Types of medical treatment
  • Types of medical providers
  • How do I claim for medical treatment?
    • Physiotherapy Policy
    • Psychology Policy
  • How is my claim assessed?
• Benefits & entitlements
  • Medical expenses
    • Medical service rates
  • Travel costs
  • Household and attendant care services
  • Aids, appliances and modifications
  • Incapacity benefits
  • Permanent impairment
  • Death and funeral benefits
  • Statutory rates
• Clinical panel
• Reconsiderations & reviews
• Reporting fraud

Laws & Regulation

• SRC Act, Regulations & Directions
  • Notices of Declaration under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
  • Information on 2011 SRC Act amendments
  • Information on 2009 SRC Act amendments
  • Information on the 2007 SRCOLA Amendments
  • Changes to the interpretation of who is a Rehabilitation Authority
• OHS Act, Regulations & Code
  • Occupational Health and Safety Code of Practice 2008
    • FAQs on the OHS Code 2008
  • Information on Amendments to the OHS Act and Regulations
    • 2011 Amendment to the OHS (SS) Regulations
    • 2006 Amendment to the OHS(CE) Act (HSMA Act)
    • 2006 Amendment to the OHS(CE) Act and SRC Act (Coverage Act)
    • 2004 Amendment to the OHS (CE) Act
• OHS investigations
  • Mandatory and discretionary investigations
  • Proactive and reactive investigations
• OHS enforcement
  • Types of enforcement actions
  • Current actions
  • Completed actions
    • Substantive
    • Procedural and Interlocutory decisions of interest
    • Enforceable Undertakings
• Asbestos legal
  • Asbestos related common law claims
  • Legislation
  • Documents
  • Publications
  • Contact details

Forms & Publications

• Forms
• Publications
  • Safety and Prevention
  • Injury Management
  • Claims
  • Laws and Regulation
• Fact sheets
• Jurisdictional Policy Advices & Bulletins
  • Interim Policy Guidances 2011
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices 2012
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices 2011
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices 2010
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices 2009
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices January 2007 - December 2008
  • Jurisdictional Policy Advices January 1999 - December 2006
  • Jurisdictional Bulletins
• Research reports
• Corporate publications
  • Comcare Annual Reports
  • Comcare Strategic Plan
  • Comcare News and Customer Circulars
  • Comcare Reconciliation Plan
  • Comcare's Regulation Policy
    • Regulation Policy Overview
    • Part 1- Comcare's Compliance Strategy under the SRC Act
    • Part 2 -Comcare's OHS Compliance Strategy
    • Education, Compliance and Enforcement Measures
    • Escalation
    • Schedule 1 - Better Practice and Compliance Measures
    • Schedule 2 - Enforcement measures under the OHS Act 1991
    • Schedule 3 - Enforceable undertakings under the OHS Act 1991
    • Appendix
  • Cost recovery impact statements
  • Harradine Reports
    • Harradine - July - December 2010
    • Harradine - January - June 2010
    • Harradine - July - December 2009
    • Harradine - January - June 2009
    • Harradine - July - December 2008
    • Harradine - January - June 2008
    • Harradine - July - December 2007
    • Harradine - July - December 2006
    • Harradine - January - July 2006
    • Harradine - July - December 2005
    • Harradine - January - June 2005
  • Working With You - Newsletter

The Comcare Scheme

• Overview of the Comcare scheme
• Employers in the scheme
  • Premium paying agencies
    • Employer premium performance
  • Licensees
• Scheme consultations
• Asbestos Innovation Fund
  • Funding information for 2012
  • Full Application Information
• Results

About Us

• Organisational structure
• Useful links
• Contact Us
  • Compliments and complaints
• Freedom of Information
  • Requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 1982
    • Process for an FOI request
    • Charges
    • Consultation
    • Exemptions
    • Review of decisions made under the FOI Act
    • Information publication scheme
  • Disclosure Log
• Your privacy rights under the Privacy Act 1988
  • Introduction to Comcare's privacy principles
  • Management of personal information
  • Your rights to privacy under the Privacy Act
  • Law reform and additional information
• Strategic Plan 2010-2015
  • Why we are here
    • Our co-regulator
    • What we do
    • Our coverage
    • Our strategic focus
    • Our community
  • How we work
    • The environment in which we operate
  • Our strategic focus
    • Healthy at work, safe at work
    • Back at work
    • Scheme at work
  • What we are aiming for by 2015

News & Media

• News
• Features
• Media Centre
• Social Media
• Video/Media Gallery
• Safety Alerts
  • Safety Alerts 2008-2010
• e-Newsletter
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Training

• Registration
• Nationally Accredited Qualifications

Events

• Comcare National Conference
  • 2011 National Conference
    • Program
    • Speakers
    • Conference facilitator
    • Sponsors
    • Social events
    • Safety in your generation luncheon
    • Trade Exhibitors
    • Speaker presentations
    • Event Images
• SRCC Safety Awards
• Comcare National Seminars
  • 2011 National Seminars
    • Locations and dates
    • Program
    • Presentations
• Rehabilitation Case Manager Forums
  • Speakers
  • Locations and Dates
  • Speaker presentations
• Productivity through people conference
• State Forums
• Work Health and Safety Legislation Workshops and Focus Groups
• Past events
  • 2011 Rehabilitation Case Manager Forums April
  • Comcare 2010 National Conference
    • Conference Theme and Objectives
    • Conference Program
    • Presentations
    • Conference Images
    • Speakers
    • Sponsors
  • 2010 National Seminars
    • Program
    • Presentations
  • Comcare 2009 National Conference
    • Message from Comcare's CEO
    • Conference Theme & Objectives
    • Speaker Presentations
    • Speakers
    • Conference Program
    • Sponsors
    • Conference Images
  • 2009 National Seminars
    • Program and presentations
  • 2008 Comcare National Conference
    • Conference Theme & Objectives
    • Speaker presentations
    • Conference Image Gallery
  • 2008 SRCC Safety Awards
    • Awards image gallery
  • 2008 Customer Seminars
  • 2007 Comcare National Conference
    • Theme & Objectives
    • Speaker presentations list
  • 2007 SRCC Safety Awards
    • Program of Events
    • 2007 Winners and Finalists
    • Image Gallery

Careers

• How to apply
• Status of selection processes
• Temporary employment register
  • Typical duties
• Graduate Development Program 2012
  • What are we looking for?
  • Why work with Comcare?
  • About our program
  • How to apply
  • Key dates
  • Read our graduate profiles
  • Frequently asked questions
• Indigenous traineeship program
• What we offer
• Working at Comcare

Harmonisation

• WHS Laws
  • Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth)
  • Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth)
  • Codes of Practice
• Duty Holders
  • PCBUs
  • Officer
  • Worker
  • Other
• Roles and Responsibilities
  • Worker/HSR
    • Worker/HSR - Legislative obligations
    • Worker/HSR - Accountability
    • Worker/HSR - Leadership, health and safety culture
    • Worker/HSR - Communication and consultation
  • WHS Practitioner/Advisor
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - Legislative obligations
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - WHS duty holders
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - Role of WHS Practitioner/Advisor
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - Leadership, health and safety culture
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - Challenges for WHS Practitioners/Advisors: what can I do?
    • WHS Practitioner/Advisor - Do your systems support your goals?
  • Middle Manager
    • Middle Manager - Legislative obligations
    • Middle Manager - Leadership, health and safety culture: what part do managers play?
  • Executive/Senior Manager
    • Executive/Senior Manager - Legislative obligations
    • Executive/Senior Manager - Accountability
    • Executive/Senior Manager - Leadership, health and safety culture
    • Executive/Senior Manager - Consultation and communication
  • CEO/Agency Head
    • CEO/Agency Head - Legislative obligations
    • CEO/Agency Head - Accountability
    • CEO/Agency Head - Leadership, health and safety culture
  • Inspector/Investigator
    • The role of a Comcare Investigator/Inspector
    • Comcare's regulatory approach
• Guidance & Resources
  • Guidance
    • Comparison tables
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Guidance for officers in exercising Due Diligence
  • Campaign Materials
  • Case Studies
    • The buck stops here - BP Oil Spill Disaster - Gulf of Mexico 2010
    • Overcoming challenges to worker involvement
    • The consequences of not reporting safety incidents
    • When training, supervision and communication fail
  • Events
  • Regulators Harmonisation Project

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