ReturnToWorkSA’s workers' compensation scheme relies heavily on clinicians, allied health care professionals, lawyers and non-medical contractors to support its purpose. This article discusses the ways in which ReturnToWorkSA’s regulatory group initiated a journey toward using data analytics to identify potential dishonesty among their service providers.

This document is WorkSafe ACT’s response to the recommendations of the 'Conduct of Work Health and Safety Prosecutions Review' undertaken in 2022 into the effectiveness of the legislative, policy and operational framework used in the ACT to initiate, run and manage WHS prosecutions.

This independent review considers the current legislative, policy and operational frameworks used in the ACT to initiate, run, and manage effective work health and safety prosecutions.

For this project, BETA collaborated with Safe Work Australia to adapt existing return to work materials for use by supervisors in small and medium enterprises and undertook a literature review, stakeholder consultation, and data analysis.

This research shows that healthcare and social assistance workers are twice as likely to file a workplace compensation claim for psychological injuries, compared to a similar dataset of workers in all non-healthcare industries, including construction, retail and law-enforcement services.