National Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks Submission to the Productivity Commission from the Business Council of Australia Submission

The BCA makes the following submission in respect of national frameworks for workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety. This submission is made in response to the issues paper titled “National Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks” (“Issues Paper”) released by the Productivity Commission (“Commission”) in April 2003. The submission focuses on options for regulatory reform that would reduce the regulatory burden and compliance costs imposed by existing regulatory schemes on businesses operating across Australia but which would also operate as an effective vehicle for the prevention of work-related injury and for the compensation and rehabilitation of those who incur work-related injury.