WorkSafe Tasmania

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WRP role and services

Workplace rehabilitation providers (WRPs) are accredited to deliver workplace rehabilitation services to help injured workers return to work.

WRPs:

  • have staff with qualifications, experience and expertise appropriate to provide timely intervention with services based on the assessed need of the worker and the workplace.
  • are accredited by the WorkCover Tasmania Board. They can only deliver the specific services they are accredited for.

The role of a WRP

A WRP helps injured/ill workers remain at work, or return to work, by providing expert advice/services. This must be done in consultation with workers, employers, insurers, treating doctors and other providers, and must be tailored to the worker’s specific circumstances.

A WRP identifies and addresses the critical physical, psychological, social, environmental and organisational risk factors which may have an impact on a worker’s ability to successfully return to work. It achieves this through delivering workplace rehabilitation services.

Workplace rehabilitation services

Under Tasmania’s workers compensation laws, prescribed workplace rehabilitation services are:

  • initial workplace rehabilitation assessment
  • assessment of the functional capacity of a worker
  • workplace assessment
  • job analysis
  • advice about job modification
  • rehabilitation counselling
  • vocational assessment.

A workplace rehabilitation provider may be accredited to deliver all or some of these services.

What is not covered

Under Tasmania’s workers compensation laws, workplace rehabilitation does not include:

  • work conditioning
  • treatment (including therapeutic counselling)
  • overseeing/monitoring of an injured worker’s treatment
  • determining a worker’s ongoing entitlements
  • claims management
  • assessment of daily living.

WorkSafe Tasmania resources

Guideline for preparing return to work plans and injury management plans (PDF, 249.8 KB)

List of accredited WRPs

Other resources

Health benefits of good work: Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Last updated: 29 October 2019
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