Work-Related Personal Injury
Work-Related Personal Injury : A work-related personal injury is a personal injury that a person suffers: (a) while he or she is at any place for the purposes of his or her employment, including, for example, a place that itself moves or a place to or through which the claimant moves; or (b) while he or she is having a break from work for a meal or rest or refreshment at his or her place of employment; or (c) while he or she is travelling to or from his or her place of employment at the start or finish of his or her day's work, if he or she is an employee and if the transport (i) is provided by the employer; and (ii) is provided for the purpose of transporting employees; and (iii) is driven by the employer or, at the direction of the employer, by another employee of the employer or of a related or associated employer; or (d) while he or she is travelling, by the most direct practicable route, between his or her place of employment and another place for the purposes of getting treatment for a work-related personal injury, if the treatment (i) is necessary for the injury; and (ii) is treatment of a type that the claimant is entitled to under Part 1 of Schedule 1. Work-related personal injury includes: a cardio-vascular or cerebro-vascular episode suffered by a person, if the episode is caused by physical effort or physical strain, in performing his or her employment, that is abnormal in application or excessive in intensity for the person; personal injury caused by a work-related gradual process, disease, or infection; personal injury suffered by a person resulting from treatment for a work-related personal injury. [IPRC Act]
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