• In an emergency
• Work health and safety incident notification
• Recording and investigating non-notifiable incidents
• When there is a death in the workplace
  • Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
  • Queensland Police Service
  • Coroner
  • Making funeral arrangements
  • Payment of superannuation benefits
  • Claims for workers' compensation
  • Getting further help

• Workers' compensation
• Laws and prosecutions
• Workplace inspections
• Risk management

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Making funeral arrangements

You can contact your chosen funeral director at any time after the police have spoken with you. The Coroner, in most circumstances, will release the body of the person who has died to the funeral director, after the post-mortem examination and identification is confirmed.

Police are required to use the services of a specific funeral director, who holds a contract with the Government, to take the person who has died to a mortuary. However there is no obligation on the family to use the services of that funeral director. A list of funeral directors can be located in the Yellow Pages (non-Queensland Government link).

A viewing of the person who has died can be arranged through the funeral director at the funeral director's chapel.

Death certificate enquiries:

• Registrar-General - Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, telephone 07 3247 9203.