A New Policy for Vocational Rehabilitation
A presentation focusing on the 2008 amendments to the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act. It focuses on new incentives on employers and ACC to help older workers to recover and get back to work,to provide high quality rehabilitation, new incentives to provide for longer periods of rehabilitation, and new provisions focussing on fair compensation for injured employees.
By Hazel Armstrong
REPORTS
CASES
External Links
- ACC – What support can I get?
- ACC futures
- ACC Read Codes
- Accident Compensation Act 2001 No 49 (as at 01 August 2011)
- Assessment of Occupational Noise Induced Hearing Loss for ACC
- Health Information Privacy Code 1994
- Increases to ACC client payments
- Ministry of Justice
- New Zealand Council of Trade Union ACC campaign page
- New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
- Non-treating doctors performing medical assessments of patients for third parties – standards of practice
- Parliamentary debates
- Payments for Mental Harm – Marcus Elliott
- Public Service Association privatisation campaign page
- Radio Live 'History of ACC' interview with Hazel Armstrong
- Statistics New Zealand Official Injury Information Plan 2010-2012
- Statutes of New Zealand
- Te Ara Encyclopedia – Workplace Safety and Compensation
- The University of Auckland ACC Group
- UK Health and Safety Executive- Hand Arm Vibration Exposure Calculator