Useful Links
Health & Workers Compensation Sites
NSW WorkCover
WorkCover NSW manages the State's workplace safety, injury management,
and workers compensation systems. WorkCover NSW works with industry, the
workforce, and insurers to:
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promote a culture of safety through public awareness programs,
education and other community activities
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improve the performance of the workplace safety, injury management,
and workers compensation systems.
Comcare Australia
Comcare
is responsible for workplace safety, rehabilitation and compensation in
the Commonwealth jurisdiction. Comcare is a statutory authority reporting
to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and administers two
Acts of Parliament:
Comcare supports the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission
in exercising its functions and powers. These relate broadly to the
regulation of workplace safety, rehabilitation and compensation
performance under the and the OHS(CE) Act and SRC Act.
Australian Society of
Rehabilitation Counsellors [NSW Branch]
The Ergonomics Society of
Australia (ESA) is the professional organisation of Ergonomists in
Australia. Its purpose is to promote the principles and practice of
ergonomics throughout the community. It has over 500 members. ESA is one
of 36 federated societies worldwide that comprise the International
Ergonomics Association (IEA).
CT
WorkCover
ACT WorkCover is a government agency working primarily to
eliminate death, disease and injury in the workplace. This work is
supported by three main Acts: the Occupational
Health and Safety Act 1989; the Workers
Compensation Act 1951; and the Dangerous
Goods Act 1975.
The Australian Psychological
Society
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is the largest
professional association for psychologists in Australia, representing
around 13,000 members. The APS is committed to advancing psychology as a
discipline and profession. It spreads the message that psychologists make
a difference to peoples’ lives, through improving scientific knowledge and
community well-being.
Related Government Sites
The Workers Compensation
Resolution Service [WCRS]
From 1 January 2002, the new Workers Compensation Commission will
determine disputes on worker's compensation claims (where the claim was
made on or after 1 January 2002) and deal with some other matters. The
Commission aims to provide a fair and flexible dispute resolution process
that ensures workers entitlements are paid promptly so that injured
workers can resume their normal lives with less impact on their long-term
health. The Workers Compensation Commission will replace the Workers
Compensation Resolution Service (WCRS). The Compensation Court will
continue to deal with disputes in relation to claims made prior to 1
January 2002.
Commonwealth Government
Departments & Agencies
www.fed.gov.au, the Commonwealth
Government Entry Point, offers comprehensive and integrated access to
Federal Government information. You will find a concentrated body of
Australian Commonwealth Government information through this site. www.fed.gov.au currently signposts
over 500 Federal Government web sites, indexes more than 1,000,000 pages
and uses both metadata and free text indexing to ensure it is a
comprehensive government portal.
Legal Sites
Austlii
Consolidated Acts and Regulations - Legislation
The
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet
access to Australian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda
is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To
that end, we have become one of the largest sources of legal materials on
the net, with over seven gigabytes of raw text materials and over 1.5
million searchable documents.)
Court Lists
The Law
and Justice Foundation of NSW seeks to advance the fairness and equity of
the justice system, and to improve access to justice, especially for
socially and economically disadvantaged people.
NSW
CompensationCourtDecisions
This database contains selected
decisions of the Compensation Court of New South Wales since 1985 as
reported in the NSW Compensation Court Reports (NSWCCR) with abbreviated
headnotes. The database also contains selected full text decisions of the
Court from 1999. These later decisions may subsequently be published in
NSWCCR Volumes in edited format and with detailed headnotes.
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