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Lead indicators — Same injury, two accounts

Lauren Finestone

What Australia’s first employer survey reveals about employer capability and the gap between intention and workers' experience

Until now, Australia’s National Return to Work Survey told us about the RTW experience from one side only — injured workers. In 2025, Safe Work Australia introduced an employer cohort for the first time.  We now have both perspectives on the same process, even though the 2 surveys sampled separately: each employer reported on their most recent injured worker, not necessarily the same worker who responded to the worker survey. I...

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Published 21 July, 2026