Workplace accidents

If you are working FIFO or under your own ABN, your place of work and who manages you might be somebody other than your employer. For example if you are a contractor sent to a mine site and you have an accident at the mine:

• The employment agency is your employer, and you may have a workers compensation claim against your employment agency, but
• If the operator of the mine or the owner of the mine or another contractor on site had some part in the accident then you might have a separate claim against them.

If you have an accident at your place of work it is important that you explore all possible claims.  If your accident happened while you were working at a place that is managed by somebody other than your employer, or, if you had an accident in circumstances where somebody other than your employer was supervising your work, then you should seriously think about getting legal advice on whether you can make a separate claim against those businesses.