Return to work pathways of injured Australian workers

Workers' compensation is a form of insurance to cover employees if they are injured at work or become sick due to their work. A key goal of workers' compensation is to rehabilitate injured workers and return them to work. However, it is often not a linear pathway of recovery and return to work, and multiple return to work options can be available, such as modified duties or graduated return to work. Furthermore, often injured workers attempt to return to work however relapse onto income support payments. This project would look at the return to work pathways followed by injured workers with three commonly covered conditions, and compare these between conditions and jurisdictions, using a novel mapping method. For enquiries please contact sphpm-gr-enquiry@monash.edu