New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2016 - REG 19

19 Category 1 employers must have return-to-work co-ordinator

(1) A category 1 employer must--

(a) employ a person to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer, being a person who has undergone such training as the return-to-work guidelines may require, or

(b) engage a person in accordance with such arrangements as the return-to-work guidelines may from time to time permit to be a return-to-work co-ordinator for injured workers of the employer.

: Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.

(2) The following are examples of the arrangements that the return-to-work guidelines can permit for the purposes of this clause--

(a) the engagement of a person under an arrangement with a person or organisation that provides return-to-work co-ordinators to employers,

(b) an arrangement under which a person is engaged on a shared basis by 2 or more employers.

(3) The return-to-work guidelines can require an employer to obtain the approval of the Authority before entering into an arrangement for the purposes of subclause (1)(b).

(4) The return-to-work guidelines can impose requirements with respect to the training, qualifications and experience of persons who may be engaged to be return-to-work co-ordinators under subclause (1)(b).