Recover better at work campaign health providers

In 2011 WorkCover launched its Recover better at work advertising campaign which focuses on how being back at work can help workers recover better from an injury.

The campaign features real-life, inspiring stories of injured workers and their employers, demonstrating that the support of their workplace is critical in returning to work and positively focusing on the end goal of a full recovery.

The campaign also highlights the importance of maintaining relationships between the injured worker, their employer and co-workers. 

View advertising material for this campaign.

Health provider resources

Patient care fact sheets

Caring for your low back pain [436 KB]
Caring for your knee sprain [453 KB]
Caring for your shoulder pain [397 KB]
Caring for your soft tissue injury [329 KB]

Doctor facts sheets

A quick guide to acute – subacute low back pain [203 KB]
Helping your patients return to work [170 KB]
Assessing Yellow flags for workplace injuries [187 KB]

Return to work resources

A guide to assessing and managing red and yellow flags [268 KB]
A proactive approach to return to work [294 KB]
Facilitators and barriers to return to work – A literature review [449 KB]
Job analysis – executive summary form [78 KB]
Occupational therapy functional capacity evaluation – executive summary form [78 KB]

Treatment and management resources

Clinical framework for the delivery of physiotherapy services to injured workers [550 KB]
Managing acute-subacute low back pain - clinical practice guideline [550 KB]
Acute-subacute low back pain fact sheet [59 KB]

Outcome measures and screening tools

Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) [33 KB]
Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) [45 KB]
Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) [35 KB]
Neck Disability Index [35 KB]
Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) [33 KB]
Oswestry Low Back Disability Questionnaire [37 KB]
Patient-Specific Functional Scale [18 KB]
The Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale [28 KB]
Roland Morris Low Back Pain and Disability Questionnaire (RMQ) [16 KB]
Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) [35 KB]
Upper Extremity Functional Index (UEFI) [35 KB]
Visual Analogue Scale [15 KB]

Resources for injured workers and their employers

Injured worker booklets

A guide to the WorkCover Scheme and returning to work [1173 KB]
The road to recovery – returning to work and life [875 KB]

Employer booklets

An employer's guide to helping injured workers return to work [1060 KB]

For more information on workers compensation and return to work visit the Health Provider section of our website