109Workplace rehabilitation

109 Workplace rehabilitation (1) An employer must establish and maintain a return-to-work program that complies with subsection (3). (2) An employer must display or notify a return-to-work program that complies with subsection (3) at each place of work of the workers to whom the program relates or may relate. (3) A return-to-work program must— (a) provide policies and procedures for the rehabilitation (including, if necessary, vocational rehabilitation) of injured workers of the (b) be consistent with the injury management program of the employer’s insurer; and (c) be established in accordance with any guidelines issued by the Minister under section 110; and (d) be developed in consultation with— (i) the workers to whom it relates, or may relate; and (ii) any industrial union of workers representing the workers; and (iii) an approved rehabilitation provider. (4) To remove any doubt, subsection (3) (d) does not limit the people the employer may consult when developing the return-to-work program. (5) Subsection (1) does not apply if— (a) the employer is part of a group of employers that has jointly established a single return-to-work program for each member of the group; and (c) the employers are authorised in writing to do this by the Minister; and (b) the return-to-work program complies with subsection (3).