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• Reduce the risk of sprains and strains in your workplace

  27 Apr 2023

  Sprains and strain-type injuries are grouped together and collectively known as “body stressing” injuries.

  Body stressing claims were the most common type of claim accepted in South Australia last financial year. And the year before that. And the year before that. In fact, since 2015, body stressing claims have accounted for more than one third of all claims lodged in the state.

• ReturnToWorkSA Annual Report and scheme performance 2021-22

  07 Nov 2022

  The ReturnToWorkSA Annual Report 2021-22 highlights the achievements of the Return to Work scheme and addresses our strategic objectives.

• Healthy Workplaces Service launches

  27 Oct 2022

  Today the South Australian Government launched the Healthy Workplaces Service at South Australia's Biggest Mentally Healthy Business Breakfast.

• Worker prosecuted for dishonestly receiving payments

  11 Oct 2022

  ReturnToWorkSA has successfully prosecuted a man who claimed and received compensation payments while continuing to be paid as a farmhand – despite saying he was incapable of working.

• Significant reforms to the Return to Work Act 2014

  04 Aug 2022

  Significant reforms to the Return to Work Act 2014 (the Act) passed South Australian Parliament on 6 July 2022 in the Return to Work (Scheme Sustainability) Amendment Act 2022.

• Reducing injuries to residential aged care workers

  19 Jul 2022

  On 15 June, ReturnToWorkSA and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA Branch (ANMFSA) launched a partnership to run a 2 year Best Practice Guidelines program aimed at reducing injuries among health care workers at residential aged care facilities.