• Introduction
• Assessment guidelines
• Review of decision
  • Stage 1 - Compliance with legislation
  • Stage 2 - Audit of management systems
• Determining level of achievement
• Reporting of outcomes
• Contact information

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Introduction

The workplace health and safety performance requirements in the self-insurance provisions of the Workers¿ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (PDF, 1.6 MB), recognises the connection between managing workplace risk and work-related injury.

As an applicant for a self-insurance licence, an employer can exercise complete control over the discharge of the liability to compensate injured employees. The rate at which claims are generated impacts directly on the employer’s capacity to fund and manage claims and also on the wellbeing of workers. For this reason, Q-COMP requires a report of satisfactory workplace health and safety performance in support of the application for a self-insurance licence, at the time of licence renewal.

The report is issued by the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations through Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.

The report prepared for Q-COMP does not represent an employer’s statement of compliance with the obligations under the Workplace Health and Safety Act 1995 (PDF, 766 kB), nor does it provide any form of immunity from inspectorate enforcement activity.

As well as providing self-insurance licensing requirements for Q-COMP, self-insurers can benchmark their performance as a basis for continuous improvement of systems for managing workplace injury and disease.

This ultimately benefits both the worker and employer by providing for healthier, safer and more productive workplaces.