Customer Service / RED_104 – Workplace Rehabilitation Provider Evaluation
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At the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA), research is at the core of our strategic framework. It underpins our key functions to ensure Workers Compensation (WC) insurance, Compulsory Third Party (CTP) green slip insurance, home building compensation insurance schemes are fair, affordable, and effective for policy holders, and for people who make a claim for compensation today or in the future.
SIRA’s objectives and regulatory role is documented in the workers compensation and motor accidents legislation and includes ensuring that persons injured in the workplace or in motor accidents have access to treatment that will assist with their recovery, whilst also ensuring the efficiency and viability of the insurance and compensation schemes.
Workplace rehabilitation providers provide specialized services in addition to those provided by the employer, insurer and treating practitioner(s). This can include support when there is difficulty identifying suitable work, complex injury, delayed recovery and/or communication breakdown. The provision of workplace rehabilitation services in NSW accounts for approximately $200 million per year, with just over 100 approved workplace rehabilitation providers.