- Home
- Promoting health and safety
- Creating mentally healthy workplaces
- Why is work health important?
- Healthy worker
- Working together: Promoting mental health and wellbeing at work
- Mental Health and Wellbeing - Participating and thriving in our workplaces
- The Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance
- Supporting ability at work
- Supporting health, performance and productivity
- Flexible work
- Building a resilient workforce
- Health Benefits of Work
- Roles and responsibilities
- Duty Holders
- Comcare research and innovation approach
- Health and safety representatives
- Investing in Experience: Age diversity in the workplace
- Education & training
- Work health and safety profiles
- Creating mentally healthy workplaces
- Preventing harm
- Early intervention
- Recovery and return to work
- Recovery and rehabilitation
- Roles and responsibilities - rehabilitation
- Workplace Rehabilitation Framework
- Rehabilitation guidelines
- Barriers to Return to Work
- Working with Workplace Rehabilitation Providers
- Rehabilitation assessment
- Medical certificate of capacity
- Capability Products
- National Return to Work Survey
- Workplace rehabilitation provider fee guidance
- Returning to work
- Returning to independence
- Recovery and rehabilitation
- Claims and benefits
- Forms & publications
- The scheme
- The SRC Act
- Legislative Instruments and Gazettal Notices 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
- Rehabilitation
- SRC Regulations Amendments 1988 to 1999
- SRC Regulations Amendments 2000 to 2009
- SRC Regulations Amendments from 2010
- Overview of the Comcare scheme
- The Parliamentary Injury Compensation Scheme
- The WHS Act
- The ARC Act
- Authorities we work with
- Premium paying employers
- Licensees
- Our compliance and enforcement activities
- Guidance on applying the SRC Act
- Regulatory guides
- Regulator Performance Framework
- Cost recovery
- Comparative claims
- Fraud
- Delegated claims management arrangements
- Feedback
- The SRC Act
- About us
- News & media
- Training
- Events
- Careers
Regulator Performance Framework
Background
The Government has committed to reducing the cost of unnecessary or inefficient regulation imposed on individuals, business and community organisations by at least $1 billion a year. In order to achieve the Government's goal of reducing the burden of regulation, it is essential to improve the performance of regulators by supporting them to adopt consistent, risk-based approaches to administering regulation.
The Regulator Performance Framework encourages regulators to minimise their impact on those they regulate while still delivering the regulatory functions they are required to perform. The Framework also aims to affect positive and lasting cultural change within regulators to ensure improvements and efficiencies are ongoing.
Measuring performance
Measuring and publicly reporting performance will give business, the community and individuals confidence that regulators effectively and flexibly manage risk.
The Framework provides regulators with a standard set of key performance indicators to implement.
| KPI | Description |
|---|---|
| KPI 1 | Regulators do not unnecessarily impede the efficient operation of the regulated entities |
| KPI 2 | Communication with regulated entities is clear, targeted and effective |
| KPI 3 | Actions undertaken by regulators are proportionate to the regulatory risk being managed |
| KPI 4 | Compliance and monitoring approaches are streamlined and coordinated |
| KPI 5 | Regulators are open and transparent in their dealings with regulated entities |
| KPI 6 | Regulators actively contribute to the continuous improvement of regulatory frameworks |
Other features of the Framework include:
- measures of good regulator performance to be used by regulators to assess their achievements against the key performance indicators alongside outputs—or activity-based evidence specific to individual regulators
- a process for annual externally validated self-assessment
- a process for targeted external review every three years for a selected set of regulators
- a process for annual external review for a small number of major regulators.
Comcare's Regulator Performance Framework
Comcare, as the regulator of work health and safety under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, and regulator of rehabilitation under the Safety,Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, must implement the Framework by 1 July 2015, with the first assessment period to occur in the 2015-16 financial year.
Implementing and reporting against the Framework will assist Comcare to identify areas for improvement, direct resources for greater impact, and identify opportunities to reduce compliance costs.
Comcare's Regulator Performance Framework will include:
- Comcare outcomes-based key performance indicators and measures of good regulatory performance
- Comcare self-assessment methodology (the Methodology)
- Comcare reporting template.
Related links
- The Australian Government Guide to Regulation―to help change the way policy makers think about regulation and to inform the consultation and policy making processes.
- Regulator Performance Framework— to review the performance of Commonwealth regulators
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
- Comcare Regulatory Performance Framework - Key Performance Indicators
- Comcare Regulatory Performance Framework 2015-16
- Comcare Regulatory Performance Framework 2016-17
For information on the Government's Regulator Performance Framework, please visit: Cutting Red Tape.
