What does workplace rehabilitation involve?
Every claim is different, so workplace rehabilitation should be tailored to the worker’s injury, capacity, workplace and recovery goals. IOH may assist with:
Workplace assessments and suitable duties
A workplace assessment reviews the worker’s duties, work environment and available suitable work options. This helps determine whether duties can be modified safely through changes to tasks, hours, equipment, work practices or supervision.
Suitable duties may include parts of the worker’s usual role, reduced hours, modified duties, alternate tasks, training opportunities or work at a different site, depending on medical certification and workplace availability.
Recover-at-work and return-to-work planning
A recover-at-work plan provides a clear, staged pathway for increasing duties or hours in line with medical capacity. IOH consultants help ensure the plan is practical, understood by all parties and reviewed as recovery progresses.
Functional Capacity Evaluations
A Functional Capacity Evaluation, or FCE, assesses a worker’s physical capacity against specific work demands. This can help clarify what duties are currently safe, what restrictions apply and what supports may be required.
Psychological injury rehabilitation
Psychological injury claims often require careful coordination, clear communication and sensitivity to workplace, interpersonal and psychosocial barriers. IOH supports recovery-focused planning that considers both the worker’s health needs and the practical realities of the workplace.
Vocational assessment and new employer rehabilitation
If the worker cannot safely return to their pre-injury employer or role, IOH can assist with vocational assessment, transferable skills review, labour market research, job-seeking strategy and new employer placement support.
Same employer vs new employer rehabilitation
Same employer rehabilitation focuses on helping the worker recover at work or return to work with their pre-injury employer. This may involve workplace assessment, suitable duties planning, stakeholder meetings and graded upgrades.
New employer rehabilitation applies when returning to the same employer is no longer suitable or realistic. IOH helps the worker identify transferable skills, explore suitable job options, prepare for job seeking and move toward sustainable employment with a new employer.
Why choose IOH Health?
IOH has supported workplace injury recovery since 1984. We are an independent Australian health provider, not owned by an insurance broker, claims intermediary or private equity group. That independence matters.
In the workers compensation market, some rehabilitation providers sit within broader broker-owned or investor-owned groups. In those models, a broker may recommend a rehabilitation provider that is part of its own corporate family. Even where that is disclosed and managed appropriately, it can create a perceived conflict of interest: is the referral being made because the provider is the best fit for the worker and employer, or because the work stays inside the same group?
IOH offers a clear alternative. We are not a broker-owned rehabilitation subsidiary and we do not rely on internal referral pathways from a parent company. Referrals to IOH are earned through performance, responsiveness, communication and outcomes.
Our team brings together rehabilitation consultants and allied health professionals with experience across physical injury, psychological injury, workplace assessment, vocational rehabilitation and recover-at-work planning.
