Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

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

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).

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

within 6 months after—

establishing a workplace; or

starting to employ workers at a workplace; or

within a later period approved by the Regulator.

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.

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.

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.

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

In this section—

the person’s name and contact details; and

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

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