Task 2

Instructions: The following task is to be submitted to your teacher in one of the two ways described below.

To return work by email

To return work by mail

To save and finish later

Work Cover

Using the link to the website www.workcover.nsw.gov.au

and /or

the support material, complete the worksheet below.

WorkCover Worksheet

WorkCover manages 3 areas of the workplace:

The aim is to:

Go to About Us (blue/left side)

The vision of WorkCover is:

 

Look at the organisational structure (if possible)

WorkCover is responsible to whom?

Go to Workers Compensation

Workers Compensation is:

The 2 laws relating to Workers Compensation are:

Workers Compensation is compulsory and can be obtained from:

Go to O H & S, Frequently Asked Questions

What did you find?

What is the site trying to do with this information?

Go to Workplace Injury Management

The law that applies here is:

It focuses on:

Two schemes to assist injured workers are:

You are injured at work. How would you claim Workers Compensation?

Go to Newsbreak

Select 3 articles. Read each one and outline in one paragraph each what they were about. Be sure to include the role WorkCover NSW played, what laws applied and your opinion. (Do you think the outcome was fair to the worker or employer - why?)

Article 1:

Article 2:

Article 3:

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