Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 226

226 Employer’s obligation to appoint rehabilitation and return to work coordinator

(1) An employer must appoint a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator if the employer meets criteria prescribed under a regulation.

(2) The rehabilitation and return to work coordinator must be in Queensland and be employed by the employer under a contract (regardless of whether the contract is a contract of service).

(3) The employer must, unless the employer has a reasonable excuse, appoint the rehabilitation and return to work coordinator—

(a) within 6 months after—

(i) establishing a workplace; or

(ii) starting to employ workers at a workplace; or

(b) within a later period approved by the Regulator.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(4) The employer must give the insurer the prescribed details of a person appointed as a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator within 12 months after the appointment.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(5) If the prescribed details of a person appointed as a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator change, the employer must, by written notice, tell the insurer about the change within 12 months after the change.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(6) A rehabilitation and return to work coordinator, who is employed under a contract of service at the workplace, is not civilly liable for an act done, or an omission made, in giving effect to the workplace rehabilitation policy and procedures of an employer.

(7) If subsection (6) prevents a civil liability attaching to a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator, the liability attaches instead to the employer.

(8) In this section—

"prescribed details" , of a person appointed as a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator, means—

(a) the person’s name and contact details; and

(b) the details of how the person is appropriately qualified under 41(1)(a); and

(c) the details of each workplace for which the person is appointed as the rehabilitation and return to work coordinator.