Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify return-to-work requirements
- Assist with preparing return to work for injured worker
- Assist with identifying suitable return-to-work duties for injured worker in consultation with required internal and external stakeholders
- Identify potential barriers for worker returning to work, in consultation with relevant parties
- Assist with design of return-to-work program for injured worker based on advice from medical professionals and consultation with required parties, and within scope of own role
- Assist with identifying potential WHS-related risks to other team members arising from injured worker’s reduced capacity and absence, and how to manage these potential risks
- Assist with establishing agreement between required parties on injured worker’s return to work
- Assist with implementing return to work
- Assist with assessing intended work environment for injured worker for potential WHS-related risk
- Consult with required stakeholders about WHS implications of return to work, and assist with incorporating feedback
- Assist with providing guidance to required personnel about WHS implications of return-to-work process and support for necessary adjustments
- Assist with monitoring and evaluating return to work
- Facilitate regular feedback and communication between relevant parties
- Assist with monitoring return to work and identifying hazards and areas of non-compliance according to organisational policies and procedures
- Assist with taking action to address WHS hazards and areas of non-compliance, and modifying return to work as required according to WHS laws, and organisational WHS policies and procedures
- Assist with evaluating return to work and implementing WHS-related recommendations for required improvements