Collection Statement

How your information will be collected

Personal and sensitive information will be collected from you directly when you fill out and submit our registration form or any other information in connection with your application to us for registration.
Personal and sensitive information will also be collected when:

• we receive any reference about you;
• we receive results of inquiries that we might make of your former employers, work colleagues,
• professional associations or reistration bodies;
• we receive the results of any competency or medical test;
• we receive performance feedback (whether positive or negative) from host clients;
• we receive any complaint from or about you in your workplace;
• we receive any information about a workplace accident in which you are involved
• we receive any information about any insurance investigation, litigation, registration or
• professional disciplinary matter, criminal matter, inquest or inquiry in which you are involved;
• you provide us with any additional information about you.

How your information may be used.
Your personal and sensitive information may be used in connection with:

• your actual or possible work placements;
• your performance appraisals;
• our assessment of your ongoing performance and prospects;
• any test or assessment (including medical tests and assessments) that you might be required to undergo;
• our identification of your training needs;
• any workplace rehabilitation;
• our managmeent of any complaint, investigation or inquiry in which you are involved;
• any insurance claim or proposal that requires disclosure of your personal or sensitve information

Your personal and sensitve information may be disclosed to:

• potential and actual employers and clients of Workforce on Tap;
• referees;
• other members of Workforce on Tap
• our insurers
• a professional association or registration body that has a proper interest in the disclosure of your personal and sensitve information;
• a Workers Compensation body;
• our contractors and suppliers - eg. our IT contractors and database designers;
• any person or company with a lawful entitlement to obtain the information - eg other Government agencies ie Australian Tax Office and Child Support Agencies etc;
• superannuation funds.

If you do not give us the information we seek

• we may be limited in our ability to locate suitable work for you;
• we may be limited in our ability to place you in work

You can gain access to your information to correct it if it is wrong

• Subject to some exceptions which are set out in the National Privacy Principles (Principle 6 - Access and Correction), you have a right to see and have a copy of personal and sensitive information about you that we hold.