Queensland Consolidated Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 36EC

36EC Meaning of eligible employee

(1) A person is employed as an
"eligible employee" if—

(a) the person is a worker, or a relevant volunteer, employed by or in an entity prescribed by regulation; and

(b) the person’s employment requires the person to experience repeated or extreme exposure to the graphic details of traumatic incidents by—

(i) attending the scenes of traumatic incidents; or

Example of a person for subparagraph (i)—

a person whose employment requires the person to recover human remains

(ii) experiencing traumatic incidents as they happen to other persons; or

Example of a person for subparagraph (ii)—

a fire communications officer whose employment requires the officer to respond to calls for information and advice in emergency situations

(iii) investigating, reviewing or assessing traumatic incidents that have happened to other persons.

Example of a person for subparagraph (iii)—

a person whose employment requires the person to investigate complaints of child sexual abuse

(2) In this section—

"traumatic incident" includes an incident that exposes a person to, or to the threat of, any of the following—

(a) death;

(b) serious injury;

(c) sexual violence.