No one likes to imagine the worst case scenarios in work injury: the fatalities, the permanent disabilities, the trauma. Yet for Return to Work professionals, knowing how to handle cases of catastrophic injury can drastically improve outcomes for the injured person. Catastrophic injuries include brain injuries, spinal injuries, amputations and other severe, long-term conditions. In cases of permanent impairment, a lump sum payment is made by the...

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ReturnToWorkSA has partnered with Return to Work Matters to provide South Australian Return to Work Coordinators with a free online resource. This website gives coordinators access to practical injury management tools and instructive articles that summarize the findings of evidence based research.

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If this is your first visit, and you are a registered South Australian RTW Coordinator, please subscribe here to access this and other resources.

ReturnToWorkSA has partnered with Return to Work Matters to provide South Australian Return to Work Coordinators with a free online resource. This website gives coordinators access to practical injury management tools and instructive articles that summarize the findings of evidence based research.