Motor vehicle accidents can present major issues for employers Motor vehicle accidents affect thousands of people in Australia every year, unfortunately. In many cases, the motorists involved are on their own to sort out the messy aftermath and deal with the consequences – but often, it’s the employer’s job to get involved. Consider this: According
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How can you resolve disagreements over workplace injury claims? Say you’ve suffered a workplace injury that’s rendered you temporarily unable to handle your job responsibilities. Maybe you experienced a minor fall while working on a construction site, or began feeling chronic back pain from working at an uncomfortable desk. In any event, you got hurt,
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If you’re injured in the workplace, can you get the compensation you deserve? Everyone wants to go into work each morning and be a fast, efficient, productive worker, but the truth is it’s hard to balance that with being safe. The harder you work – especially in settings that require a lot of physical labour
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Is your employer neglecting to keep you safe on the job? Perhaps the most important job an employer has – before hiring, employee engagement, payroll, benefits or anything else – is to keep the workforce safe every day. A healthy staff is a productive one. Keeping employees free from injury and illness is essential if
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Have you been injured at work? Take care to recover safely Not everyone who’s injured in a job-related mishap has to sit on the sidelines and miss work forever. Some individuals fight through injuries and keep showing up anyway – either because the pain isn’t too severe, or because they’ve had a little time to
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Claiming workplace injuries in a comprehensive, timely fashion Workers in Australia are no strangers to job-related injuries – in fact, they happen all the time. According to survey data from SafeWork Australia, there are 13.1 serious injury claims per 1,000 employees per year nationwide. This means that every year, there are well over 100,000 people
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