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Injured workers were asked to rate six different people who may have helped or hindered (a lot or a little) getting them back to work including health professionals, those in the workplace and compensation providers. The proportion who identified each person is shown in the graph.

 

Rehabilitation provider - 78% identified a Rehabilitation provider as helping their return to work, is a slight increase over the previous years.

 

Main supervisor - 52% of employees advised their main supervisor was helpful in return to work. This result is above the national average of 50%.

 

Employer - 49% of employees considered employers to be helpful with RTW in 2011-12, down from 52% in 2010-11 and resting below the national average.

 

Doctor - 78% of employees considered their doctor helped with return to work. This figure reverses a steady downward trend from 76% in 2006-07, to 72% in 2010-11.

 

Insurer - 56% of Queensland injured employees indicated the insurer was helpful to their return to work in 2011-12, a significant increase from 47% in 2010-11 and consistently higher than the national average of 46%.

 

 

Question:   Now I am going to read a list of different people. For each person I would like you to tell me if they helped you get back to work, made it harder to go back to work or had no effect on you getting back to work.