A medical assessor of the Department will take account of how your current physical and mental condition compares to your pre-accident state of health and how you compare with a healthy person of the same age and sex.
The medical assessor will then rate the loss of faculty, which means your inability to enjoy a normal lifestyle because of the loss or partial loss of your ordinary physical or mental abilities because of your work related injury or disease.
However, this rate may be adjusted to reflect any loss resulting from previous accidents or pre-existing medical conditions.
Examples of assessments
| Injury |
Loss of faculty |
| Loss of both hands |
100% |
| Loss of one eye |
40% |
| Loss of thumb |
30% |
| Loss of 2 fingers of one hand |
20% |
| Loss of index finger |
14% |