Criteria for obligation of employer to appoint—Act, s 226
149 Criteria for obligation of employer to appoint—Act, s 226
For section 226(1) of the Act, an employer must appoint a rehabilitation and return to work coordinator if—
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; or
otherwise—the wages of the employer in Queensland for the preceding financial year were more than 5,200 times QOTE.
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, only when the employer first meets the criteria prescribed under subsection (1).
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.
In this section—
high risk industry means an industry specified by the Regulator by gazette notice as a high risk industry for the purpose of this section.
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