Comcare - Australian Goverment
Comcare - Australian Goverment
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Overview of the Comcare scheme

The Comcare scheme provides all scheme employers with an integrated safety, rehabilitation and compensation system, no matter what Australian state or territory an employer operates in or where its employees are located.

The scheme: 

  • works in partnership with employers and their employees to prevent workplace injuries
  • appropriately uses regulatory sanctions for any demonstrable failure of the employer’s duty of care 
  • empowers employers to work with their employees to maintain an injured employee at work or to achieve an early, safe and durable return to work 
  • gives employers a duty to provide injured employees with suitable employment
  • provides injured employees with a statutory package of economic and non economic benefits, such as:
     - a high standard of income support (until retirement age if necessary)
     - medical and home help assistance, permanent impairment, aids and certain alterations and other benefits

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Role of the SRCC and Comcare

The Safety, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Commission (SRCC) is established under the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act). The SRCC is a statutory body with regulatory functions in relation to Comcare and other authorities which determine workers’ compensation claims under the Comcare scheme.

The SRCC also has regulatory functions under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991 (OHS Act).

The SRC Act also establishes Comcare which has its own regulatory functions as well as claims management functions. Comcare supports the SRCC in exercising its functions under the OHS and the SRC Act.