Resources

A comprehensive review of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act.

The National Approach provides a standard to ensure that all first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), regardless of jurisdiction, are able to access appropriate support, including treatment and leave, through workers’ compensation arrangements. The National Approach was developed by the interjurisdictional First Responder Mental Health Working Group and endorsed by Ministers responsible for workers’ compensation in 2022.

This booklet presents fact sheets on nine pilot projects undertaken by agencies that are in the Deputy Secretaries' Working Group for Managing Workers Compensation in the Commonwealth.  The pilots were designed to identify ways of improving injury prevention, early intervention and rehabilitation and return to work outcomes. The booklet is designed to provide APS agencies with information about the approach and early outcomes of a number of the pilot initiatives and promote some simple yet effective ways to improve workers compensation performance.

Mr Peter Hanks QC - the final report was publicly released on 30 March 2013. The report outlines over 100 recommendations to modernise the SRC Act and to increase the focus on early intervention and rehabilitation for the benefit of injured workers and their employers.

On 24 July 2012, a comprehensive review of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (the SRC Act) was announced. 

A Review into the SRC Act was undertaken in 2012 by Mr Peter Hanks QC and Dr Allan Hawke AC, to ensure that its objectives were being met and the Comcare Scheme was exemplary in its design and delivery.