As with everything that starts there is a reason for it. Injured Worker Wellbeing has been discussed among everyone at Craig’s Table for a long time. We sat together and looked at the lists of common question that the injured worker community asked (“why wasn’t I told?”) and the common request from the industry providers (“can you pass on this information?”).

Craig’s Table then carefully went through all the information we had been asked for; simple things, odds things, ‘can I’ things, ‘do I have to’ things, direction things, ‘how do I say that’ things, ‘how do we have that conversation’ things. It would actually be very difficult to find a question, query or concern that we haven’t been asked or needed to find information about.

Once the framework was written up, it was clear that assistance was required … information needed to be shared without fear of favour. The information needed to be available around the clock and in a format that was simple, whilst at the same time provided a way forward for every section of the workers compensation system, regardless of which of the 11 different jurisdictions was involved. The injured worker community, the employers and the providers all search for “something” outside of their known connections.

Remote, regional and rural people all need information and a way of finding out “how to pull something together”.

The injured worker community extends past the injured worker to include the family and friends of the injured person. These people are relied upon to assist, they also have questions that require answers.

Once Craig’s Table had the framework, it was then working out how to put everything together and when was the appropriate time.