South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) The object of this
Act is to establish a scheme that supports workers who suffer injuries at work
and that has as its primary objective to provide early intervention in respect
of claims so as to ensure that action is taken to support workers—
(a) in
realising the health benefits of work; and
(b) in
recovering from injury; and
(c) in
returning to work (including, if required, after retraining); and
(d) in
being restored to the community when return to work is not possible.
(2) In connection with
subsection (1), the other objectives that apply with respect to this Act
are—
(a) to
ensure that workers who suffer injuries at work receive high-quality service,
are treated with dignity, and are supported financially; and
(b) to
ensure that employers' costs are contained within reasonable limits so that
the impact of work injuries on South Australian businesses is minimised; and
(c) to
provide a reasonable balance between the interests of workers and the
interests of employers; and
(d) to
reduce the overall social and economic cost of work injuries to the State and
to the community; and
(e) to
support activities that are aimed at reducing the incidence of work injuries;
and
(f) to
reduce disputation when workers are injured at work by improving the quality
of decision-making and by reducing adversarial contests to the greatest
possible extent.
(3) A person
exercising judicial, quasi-judicial or administrative powers must interpret
this Act in the light of its objects and these objectives without bias towards
the interests of employers on the one hand, or workers on the other.
(4) The Corporation,
the worker and the employer from whose employment a work injury arises must
seek to achieve an injured worker's return to work (taking into account the
objects and requirements of this Act).