Objectives of the Amendment Regulation

Primary objectives of the Amendment Act

The primary objectives of the amending Regulation are to:

give effect to the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Acts Amendment Act 2005;
achieve greater national consistency of workplace health and safety arrangements for:
- asbestos;
- construction work;
- prescribed occupations; and
- plant.

The Amendment Regulation achieves its objectives for the workers’ compensation scheme primarily by:

implementing a number of recommendations from the NCP Review of Certain Aspects of the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003;
prescribing the additional lump sum compensation payable to workers with terminal conditions that are latent onset injuries;
providing the process for calculation of a non-scheme employer’s liability on exit from the Queensland workers’ compensation scheme;
specifying the composition and procedural requirements for the medical assessment tribunals;
ensuring the delivery of consistent decisions across the scheme; and
simplifying and updating the table of injuries and the associated definitions.

The Amendment Regulation achieves its objectives for the workplace health and safety primarily by:

implementing the National Occupational Health and Safety Council’s National Code of Practice for the Management and Control of Asbestos in Workplaces and the revised National Code of Practice for the Safe Removal of Asbestos 2nd edition;
effecting the transition of training and assessment for prescribed occupations to the Vocational Education and Training sector;
applying those elements of the National Standard for Construction Work not previously adopted by the Amendment Act;
providing the process for calculation of the workplace health and safety contribution;
ensuring the continued effective operation of workplace health and safety arrangements by clarifying administrative matters relating to maintenance and certification of mobile and tower cranes; and
making other minor amendments including updating terminology and increasing regulatory fees with the CPI

Last updated December 19, 2005