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Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation

Information for Workers and Employers

This section contains important information and guidebooks about workers' compensation and health and safety for workers and employers.


Workers' Compensation medical care in California fact sheets


Improving disputes resolution for California's injured workers, RAND 2003 acrobat small logo version
Recommendations for improvement of the IMC's of injured workers and regulations of QMEs, revised July 2003 acrobat small logo version word image version



Injured worker experience


Navigating the California workers’ compensation system: The injured workers’ experience, July1996

Status: completed


Educational materials

Guidebook for injured workers and a video entitled "Introduction to Workers’ Compensation"

Project Description
Status: completed


Benefit notice simplification project

Recommendations: Information for Injured Workers, May 2000

Status: in process