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IRRI-sistable (Part 1) — WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives improve outcomes for all

Lauren Finestone

RTW practices are a team sport. WorkCover Queensland’s Injury Risk Reduction Initiatives show what can be done when injury scheme players work collaboratively to reduce the barriers to recovery and RTW.

Desmond Tutu once said: ‘We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in’. This is as true for our work injury schemes as it is for anything the Archbishop may have had in mind.  We now know from the It pays to care report that of the 4 work injury ‘domains’ (regulation, case management, the workplace and health care), workplaces are the biggest influe...

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Published 05 August, 2022 | Updated 30 August, 2022