Check a Queensland journey against the two official wordings
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the route and any stop, using a firm-controlled tool, table both official wordings and whether the injury happened before the worker left home. Do not decide cover, and do not invent a section number.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide whether the trip meets the journey pages.
- Keep the two official wordings side by side. Do not merge them.
- WorkCover excludes an injury before leaving home. WorkSafe excludes an injury at home.
- 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, journey between home and work, both official pages
Produce. A route note with both wordings and the home-boundary fact.
Have ready. Where the injury happened; The route and any stop or delay; Whether the travel was outside the normal workplace.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A worker is injured at home before the trip to work starts. WorkCover says an injury before leaving home is not a journey. WorkSafe says an injury at home is not a journey. The note stops there. It does not go on to interruptions or detours.
Stop and hand it back when
- The place of the injury, home or on the road, is unclear.
- A section number would have to be invented.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the route and any stop, using a firm-controlled tool, table both official wordings and whether the injury happened before the worker left home. Do not decide cover, and do not invent a section number. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Quote the interruptions test from the page being used, and note the other page's words.
- Record whether the worker had left home.
- For travel away from the normal workplace, list the facts that go to a significant contributing factor.
- Do not add a real-and-substantial-connection test. These pages do not state one.
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.
From 10 August 2026 the insurer and the regulator have separate sites. Both pages were opened.
The Act is linked from both pages. The journey section was not opened.