Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 40

(1) Rehabilitation, of a worker, is a process designed to—

(a) ensure the worker's earliest possible return to work; or

(b) maximise the worker's independent functioning.

(2) Rehabilitation includes—

(a) necessary and reasonable—

(i) suitable duties programs; or

(ii) services provided by a registered person; or

(iii) services approved by an insurer; or

(b) the provision of necessary and reasonable aids or equipment to the worker.

(3) The purpose of rehabilitation is—

(a) to return the worker to the worker's pre-injury duties; or

(b) if it is not feasible to return the worker to the worker's pre-injury duties—to return the worker, either temporarily or permanently, to other suitable duties with the worker's pre-injury employer; or

(c) if paragraph (b) is not feasible—to return the worker, either temporarily or permanently, to other suitable duties with another employer; or

(d) if paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) are not feasible—to maximise the worker's independent functioning.