nb&a group
nb&a group was founded in 2003 with one single focus: to support and guide people on their path to recovery from injury and illness. It’s the reason we are here.
A passion for innovation
We seek new ideas and innovation that support a changing work environment. It means we have expertise and solutions to your unique needs.
A quick look at our people profiles demonstrates our ongoing commitment to professional development. We don’t just talk about innovation, we encourage learning every day.
The human side of recovery
It could be easy to get caught up in the process of claim management but there is always a human cost of injury. That’s why we have an uncompromising belief in the health benefits of good work, even when times are tough. It’s our role to navigate the complex to keep things simple and focused, with even the smallest step leading to greater social connection and wellbeing.
No single approach is right for every person, and that’s why we bring together expertise in a range of fields and apply a true multidisciplinary approach. From an initial conversation, we can create a program that gives you confidence.
Our services include:
- Comprehensive injury management and return to work services focused on achieving safe, early, and sustainable recovery outcomes.
- Collaborative, outcome-focused approach working alongside employers, insurers, treating practitioners, and injured workers.
- Expertise across physical injury, psychological injury, mental health, chronic conditions, and workplace wellbeing.
- Workplace-based services including ergonomic assessments, workplace assessments, task analysis, suitable duties planning, and graduated return to work program for physical and psychological injuries
- Multidisciplinary team of experienced rehabilitation consultants, occupational therapists, allied health professionals, vocational assessors, and mental health occupational specialists including mental health OT.
- Accredited WorkHab OT’s delivering Functional Capacity Evaluations, tailored pre-employment and fit for work assessments
- Advisory and training services supporting employers in injury prevention, mental health awareness, resilience, and return to work compliance obligations.
- Specialised services including vocational planning, capacity assessments, and employment transition support.
- Third party delivery of Return to Work Co-ordination services
- Commitment to innovation, evidence-based practice, and client-centred rehabilitation programs tailored to individual and organisational needs.
Gallagher Bassett Services
Gallagher Bassett Services is a national specialist consultancy dealing with the management of workers’ compensation, OH&S and human resources. Our services include national system audits, performance standards audits, systems development, specialist claims advice, leave replacement, third party claims administration and training.
Rehab Management
Rehab Management is an award winning national occupational rehabilitation provider with a team of multidisciplinary allied health professionals operating in all states and territories. Our team, consisting of 250+ consultants, delivers end-to-end services from risk mitigation services, injury prevention services, early-intervention services, return to work services, and redeployment services.
Rehab Management provides the following Injury Management services:
- Tailored pre-employment functional assessments developed in collaboration with employers to ensure assessments are efficient, accurate, and value for money
- Early intervention services to ensure employees remain engaged in the workplace and reduce loss time injuries
- Tailored training packages delivered by experienced clinicians (in-person and virtual)
- Ergonomic Assessment services including new office sweeps, Ergonomic Checklists, Comprehensive Assessments, in-office, virtual and vehicle
- Adjustment to Injury Counselling and Vocational Counselling
- Redeployment services including Resume Development, Job Profiles, Interview Techniques, etc.
- Tailored Health Coaching with our award winning MyDirection service
- Experienced physical and psychological consultants to expedite return to work claims and ensure employees remain productive and health back at work
JLT Risk Solutions
JLT Risk Solutions has been successfully leading and managing the Local Government Association Workers Compensation Scheme (LGAWCS, group self-insurance for Councils) since 1986. Over the years, we have developed an extensive track record of providing injury management and advisory services to the entire Local Government sector, and many private and public sector organisations in South Australia.
Through almost 40 years of lived self-insurance experience, our expertise has evolved to cater all levels of claims and return to work management, including complex Tribunal matters.
We have the capability to help other self-insured organisations with any gaps in their injury management functions including updating or implementing new programs and systems, building team capability and backfilling as needed. Alternatively, we can provide occasional case specific advice and/or service support to progress a complex or protracted case.
Our consistent results operating the LGAWCS has seen:
- an average of 44% reduction in new claims and 56% reduction in Lost Time Injury Days since 2014.
- greater than 90% of injured workers returning to durable pre-injury employment within the first 12 months of the claim.
We will work closely with your team to solve problems and help build capability where needed.
Lawson
Lawson Risk Management Services is a South Australian owned and operated enterprise. We’re the largest provider of service to the South Australian Self Insurance community with a loyal and growing customer base.
We specialise in all things related to injury management and work health safety, including: end to end claims management support; accounts payable services; third party claims advocacy; injury management systems audits; work health and safety audits; claim file audits; self-insurance feasibility and transition; policy and procedure improvement; business process and system improvement; and, facilitation of tailored training programs.
EML
EML is Australia’s work injury specialist: returning people to work has been our core business for 110 years. We’re Australian owned, with over 2,400 employees committed to helping people get their lives back.
As a mutual, our difference is our reinvestment of profits to fund tools and resources to help employers create safer workplaces. Since 2012, we have provided $73M to fund a range of programs, research and training.
Our services are designed to help improve return-to-work outcomes, reduce risk, contain costs and ease the burden of self-insurance administrative requirements. By developing a thorough understanding of your business, we optimise existing frameworks and creating tailored solutions that flex with businesses.
We provide individualised self-insurance plans that will deliver:
- Improved readiness through regulator pre-planning audits
- Compliant regulator reporting
- Improved worker outcomes via early interventions and considered claims management
- Purpose-built Information Technology platforms
- Outcome-driven work, health and safety programs
- Regulator-focused license and insurance consolidation services
- Specialist workers insurance labour hire solutions
- Business insights through performance & liability management monitoring
Whether you are about to start the self-insurance journey or simply want to enhance the performance of your existing plan, talk to EML today about tapping into our core business — so you can devote more time to your own.
Konekt
Konekt is a publicly listed Australian company and the largest private sector provider of workplace health solutions.
Konekt operates in every state and territory within Australia, with over 40 branches and 400 staff nationally. With offices in all capital cities and extensive regional centre coverage throughout Australia, Konekt has the expertise and reach to service large national organisations with multi-site needs.
Konekt provide a holistic approach to managing workplace health solutions through an innovative and tailored approach with the sole aim of reducing costs, improving processes and removing inefficiencies.
Konekt manages all aspects of the employee lifecycle, including:
• finding the right person – physically and psychologically
• keeping them safe and well
• responding to an incident
• returning the individual to the workplace
• redeploying if unable to return to their usual workplace
Leveraging off our integrated service model, Konekt provides our large corporate clients a seamless interface for managing workplace health across the entire employee lifecycle. By doing so we ensure the individual is safe and productive and the employer is profitable and productive.
Konekt specialises in the following service areas:
Pre-employment Assessments
Occupational Health and Safety Services
Training Workshops
Corporate Health
Incident Management
Injury Management
Psychological Services
Job Placement Services
Containment of Workers’ Compensation costs and OHS liability
Procare Group
Procare is a nationally approved return to work and workplace rehabilitation provider, with over 200 return to work and allied health experts across Australia. We have a proven track record delivering tailored and effective services to promote recovery and maximise health and return to work outcomes.
We offer a full scope of rehabilitation services, including:
- Early Intervention programs to quickly address and manage injuries, including ergonomic assessments, psychological support and tailored Early Intervention Programs;
- Resilience and tailored Psychological services, by our expert team including registered psychologists;
- Same and New Employer return to work programs, facilitating return to pre-injury duties or new suitable employment;
- Functional and vocational assessments, to facilitate identification of capacity and suitable employment;
- Career transition, coaching & job seeking, to facilitate real and meaningful return to new suitable employment;
- Tailored wellness programs to prevent injury, building healthy and productive workplaces;
- Bespoke employer services including Job Dictionaries, Pre-Employment Assessments, Training, Outsourced Return to Work Coordination and Online Injury Management solutions.
PeopleVision
Established in 2009, PeopleVision is a leading workplace consultancy specialising in Self-Insurance in South Australia. Our purpose is to transform workplaces to be safer and more productive by providing tailored, integrated solutions and expert service.
Our team comprises highly experienced specialists in Work Health Safety, Return to Work, and Outsourced Claims Management. As a multi-disciplinary team, we partner with our clients to improve their employee outcomes in all aspects of WHS and Return to Work.
Efficient delivery and seamless integration of systems are essential requirements in modern-day compliant business operations. Our WHS Digital Team is leading the charge through implementing state-of-the-art and fully customised HSI Donesafe HSEQ systems nationally and internationally for our clients.
Our services include:
- Self-Insurance Claims Management
- Early intervention and Return to Work Coordination
- Self-Insurance Feasibility
- Self-Insurance auditing: Injury Management & WHS
- Claims Management Manuals
- WHS Legislative and ISO 45001 Audits
- WHS & IM System Development and Projects
- WHS and Claims Management Back-fill
- WHS & Claims Management Training
- WHS Investigations
- Psychosocial Risk Assessments
- Workplace Mediation
- HSI Donesafe System implementation
Lockton Companies
Lockton - specialises in providing contemporary Injury Prevention and Injury Management systems. We focus our service effort and products on the key elements which drive the overall prevention and compensation issues.
Lockton can analyse your business, its prevention and compensation requirements and offer advice and develop solutions that reflect your needs. Our principal objective is to provide long term solutions that will assist an organisation to cost effectively and consistently manage both Injury Prevention and Injury Management, as well as give responsible personnel the skills to control internal systems as a normal aspect of daily business operation.