Check a Queensland recess injury against the break page
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the break and the activity, using a firm-controlled tool, table the WorkCover recess sentence and the abnormal-risk limit. Do not invent a section, and do not decide cover.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide whether the break injury is covered on the WorkCover page.
- Treat an abnormal risk as the limit that page states.
- Do not give the rule a section number.
- Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Apply ASCR r 9, APP 11, and the notifiable-breach test.
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. Queensland, WorkCover page on injuries away from the usual workplace
Produce. A recess note limited to the sentence the page states.
Have ready. Where the worker was; Whether it was a break from work; The activity at the time of injury.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A worker is injured playing a contact game during a lunch break away from the site. The note records a break and the activity, and the page's abnormal-risk sentence. The lawyer decides whether the activity was that risk.
Stop and hand it back when
- The facts do not show a break from work.
- The draft cites a Queensland recess section.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the break and the activity, using a firm-controlled tool, table the WorkCover recess sentence and the abnormal-risk limit. Do not invent a section, and do not decide cover. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Record that the worker was temporarily away on a break, and what the activity was.
- Do not call the risk abnormal in the draft. Set out the activity.
- Do not import an attendance-that-day formula the Queensland page does not state.
- Keep journey facts on the journey task.
Sources
- WorkCover Queensland: injuries away from the usual workplace · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Queensland: injury travelling to, from or for work · 2026-10-23
No generative-AI practice note of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission or the Industrial Court was opened. Apply the forum's current direction before a document is lodged.
Sections 34 and 35 were not opened.
If health or wage records leave the firm-controlled tool, decide whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.