Workers compensation PNG

Your employer should have coverage for you. As far as I know if you are are not a PNG citizen you will not be covered.
Check out owc.gov.pg>cpps

I have lived and worked in PNG on projects and was covered by my employers insurance coverage.

When you have a work permit to work in Papua New Guinea (PNG) then the standard law would applies to you. Please check your working status. but if you do not have the Working permit, then the logic is there.
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The PNG law:

54. LIABILITY OF EMPLOYER TO COMPENSATE WORKER FOR INJURIES.

(1) If in any employment personal injury arising out of or in the course of the
employment is caused to a worker, his employer shall, except as provided in this Act,
be liable to pay compensation in accordance with this Act.

(2) Without limiting the generality of Subsection (1), an injury shall be deemed
to arise out of or in the course of the employment of a worker if it occurs while the
worker–

(a) is in the course of a daily or other periodic journey between his place of
abode and his place of employment, whether such journey is to or from
his place of employment; or

(b) is in the course of a journey between his place of employment or place of
abode and an institution which he is required by law to attend, or which
he attends at the request of or with the approval of the employer for the
Workers' Compensation 9999 s. 54.


purpose of attending a class or undertaking training at such an
institution; or

(c) is in attendance at an institution referred to in Paragraph (b) for a
purpose referred to in that paragraph; or

(d) is in the course of a journey between his place of abode or place of
employment and any other place for the purpose of–

(i) obtaining a medical certificate in connection with any injury for
which he has received compensation or for which a claim for
compensation has been admitted; or

(ii) receiving attention or treatment in connection with any such
injury, medical, surgical or hospital advice,
or is in attendance at any such place for any such purpose;
or

(e) is in attendance at his place of employment for reasons connected with
his employment including any period–

(i) before he has commenced his work for the day; and

(ii) after he has concluded his work for the day; and

(iii) during an authorized break in his work,

so long as the worker–

(iv) is not guilty of any misconduct or breach of his employer’s
instructions; and

(v) did not voluntarily subject himself to any abnormal risk of injury.

(3) While a worker is in the course of a journey from his place of employment
under one employer to his place of employment under another employer, this section
applies and has effect as if the first-mentioned place of employment were his place of
abode.

(4) Notwithstanding any other law, a person who ordinarily engages in
employment in connection with which he customarily attends at a place of pick-up,
shall be deemed to be working under a contract of employment–
(a) with the employer who selected and engaged him at the place of pick-up;
or

(b) if no employer so selected or engaged him–with the last employer who,
within the immediately preceding 21 days, selected and engaged him in
that employment.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, compensation under this Act is not
payable–


(a) in respect of any injury that is consequent on or attributable to the
serious and wilful misconduct of the worker unless that injury results in
the death or permanent total incapacity of the worker; or
(b) in respect of a deliberately self-inflicted injury.

55. ACTING IN EMPLOYMENT.

For the purposes of Section 54, a worker shall be deemed to be acting in the
course of his employment notwithstanding the fact that–

(a) he was acting in contravention of any statutory or other regulation
applicable to the employment; or

(b) he was acting without instructions from his employer,
if he was so acting for the purposes of, and in connection with, his employment.

56. COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES, ETC., RECEIVED OUTSIDE THE
COUNTRY.

(1) Where an employer in Papua New Guinea employs a worker and that
worker, whilst outside the territorial limits of Papua New Guinea–
(a) receives an injury; or

(b) dies,
under circumstances which, had the injury been received or the death occurred in
Papua New Guinea, would entitle him (or, in the case of the death of the worker, his
dependants) to compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act, that
worker is (or, in the case of the death of the worker, his dependants are) entitled to
receive compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(2) For the purposes of Subsection (1), the provisions of this Act apply, with the
necessary modifications, to and in relation to the injury or death.

(3) This Act shall not be construed so as to entitle a worker (or, in the case of
the death of the worker, his dependants) to receive compensation for the same injury
(or for the death) under this Act and under the corresponding law of any place other
than Papua New Guinea.

(4) If a worker (or, in the case of the death of a worker, his dependants)
receives compensation under this Act in respect of an injury (or death) and
subsequently receives compensation under a corresponding law in force in a place
other than Papua New Guinea in respect of the same injury (or death), the employer
is entitled to recover from the worker (or, in the case of the death of the worker, his
dependants) the amount of compensation paid by the employer under this Act.

read more: http://www.paclii.org/pg/legis/consol_a … 978255.pdf

i was on a REV when it happened

are you entitled to your wages while off work for injury or a percentage is there a waiting period etc before receiving them