Work-Related Injury Management

Bussiness can face complex challenges with employees whom has suffered workplace injuries or illness and employees affected by work related injuries or illness may be entiteled to compensation.

How We Can Help You Prevent Workplace Injuries?

In 2023 Safe Work Australia provided data over a 10 year period outlining traumatic injury fatalities in Australian workplaces and serious workers compensation claims involving more than a week of working time loss. The financial affect on the Australian economy is estimated to be AU$28.6 billion and a potential job deficit of 185,500 newly created jobs.

The statistics are staggering and in 2022 alone a 195 work related incidents lead to worker fatalities with workers aged 45 and over accounting for almost 62% of all worker fatalities.

At Work Health Specialists, we pride ourselves on taking a proactive approach to work-related injury prevention and work-related injury management.

We injury proof a business by implementing several onsite services which act as safety nets. Early intervention and being proactive is the key to injury prevention. That it’s about adopting the collective mentality that prevention, early intervention and injury treatment underpin a best practice approach.

In the initial treatment phase, our occupational health doctors will develop a treatment plan in consultation with your employee. This treatment plan may consist of:

assessment of the injury
scheduling of regular appointments
pathology testing if necessary
referral for consultant specialist treatment as requested
x-rays, Ultrasounds, MRIs and CT scans
physiotherapy and other relative allied health services

We will provide you and your insurers with regular reports on the progress of your employee’s treatment plan. Once your employee has completed their treatment plan, we will then assess their fitness to resume regular or light duties and make recommendations as necessary.

Workers compensation is governed by each state and territory independently and has their own regulator and administers.

Contact the workers compensation regulator in your state or territory:

- Australian Capital Territory: WorkSafe ACT

- New South Wales: State Insurance Regulatory Authority (NSW)

- Northern Territory: NT WorkSafe

- Norfolk Island: Norfolk Island Workers Compensation Scheme

- Queensland: WorkCover Queensland

- South Australia: ReturnToWork SA

- Tasmania: WorkSafe Tasmania

- Victoria: WorkSafe Victoria

- Western Australia: WorkCover WA

- Comcare

- Safe Work Australia

Drug & Alcohol Screening
Work Health Specialists provides a wide range of onsite workplace drug and alcohol testing across Australia. Our accredited drug testers will attend your work site and perform urine or saliva drug testing and a breath alcohol test. All our testing meets the relevant Australian standards, with results that are legally defensible.

Lung Function Testing
Spirometry is the most common test of lung function and mainstay for the screening and management of workers at risk of occupational lung disease. For some workplaces it is important to establish a baseline respiratory function so that an employee’s lung function can be monitored over time to determine whether any occupational exposures to airborne hazards such as vapors, dusts, gases, fumes are impacting on lung function.

Mental Health Services
You have Public Liability insurance and Workers Compensation but how can you protect your business from the downside of poor mental health? Legislation passed in 2012 dictates every workplace has a legal obligation to protect employee health and safety, both physically and mentally. But it makes great financial sense for your business too to take steps to ensure the working environment is considerate of mental health and aware of what makes a happy, healthy workplace.

Workplace Health Checks
Work Health Specialists deliver a variety of on-site health checks that provide your employees with a confidential assessment of their health status. All results are received on the spot and are 100% confidential. Employees will receive their own personal results with feedback and healthy lifestyle advice to aid them in making improvements.