Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION REGULATION 2014 - REG 115

115 Criteria for employer to appoint rehabilitation and return to work coordinator—Act, s 226(1)

(1) For section 226 (1) of the Act , the following criteria is prescribed—

(a) for an employer who employs workers at a workplace in a high risk industry—the wages of the employer in Queensland for the preceding financial year were more than 2,600 times QOTE;

(b) otherwise—the wages of the employer in Queensland for the preceding financial year were more than 5,200 times QOTE.

(2) For the purpose of section 226 (3) (a) of the Act , an employer is taken to have established a workplace, or started to employ workers at the workplace, when the employer first meets the criteria.

(3) An employer may appoint a person as the rehabilitation and return to work coordinator for more than 1 workplace if the person can reasonably perform the person’s functions as a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator for each workplace.

(4) In this section—

"high risk industry" means an industry specified by the Regulator by gazette notice.