Maintaining a safe workplace is everyone’s responsibility. This section offers information and tools to help you manage risks and protect health, safety and wellbeing.
Everything you need to know about worker’s compensation insurance, whether you’re an employer needing to insure your workers or a worker who’s been injured at work.
Your rehabilitation and return to work journey will be easier if you know your options, the steps to take, and who’s responsible for what.
Information about work health and safety and electrical licensing, registration and training.
Learn about the Acts, Regulations and codes of practice we are responsible for and find information on workplace inspections and prosecutions.
Find health and safety information and guidance about your industry and the kind of work you do.
A listing of useful resources available on the website. Use the in-page search or filters to find what you need.
Read the November 2021 edition of Rehabilitation and Return to Work e-bulletin.
Hands are one of the most common areas of the body to be injured, so it’s likely you’ll be required to facilitate rehabilitation and return to work for someone who has experienced a hand injury.
The Medical Assessment Tribunal (tribunal) makes independent, expert medical decisions about a worker’s injury or impairment. Although employers are not involved in the tribunal process, it’s important for you to understand what the tribunal is, how it works and what the potential outcomes may mean for your employer and your workers. It can also help you alleviate any uncertainty or uneasiness your injured worker may feel about attending a tribunal hearing.