obligations of the employer

• Provide a safe and healthy workplace.
• Have a worker's compensation insurance policy.

        FAILURE to do so means:

• penalty up to $27,000 or 6 months in prison
• workcover can claim twice the amount that the premium should have been
• liability for any compensation will lie with the employer

• Keep a record of all wages paid for the last seven years.
• Send the injured worker's compensation claim to the insurer within seven days.
• Inability to dismiss a person as a result of a work related injury within six months of this injury taking place.
• To keep a Register of Injuries in which records are kept.
• Establish a workplace rehabilitation programme.