Incapacity

incapacity includes —

  1. a disfigurement that is sufficient to affect the earning capacity of a worker or a worker's opportunities for employment
  2. in relation to industrial deafness, inability to engage in the worker's own or other suitable employment because of an immediate and substantial risk The probability of the worker not returning to work is known as the risk or risk factor. For example: if a worker is likely to return to work, the claim is categorised as low risk. of increasing the industrial deafness to a level of material disability