If, unfortunately, your local government is impacted by a death, reach out to LGIS as soon as possible. We have a range of services available to support our members if there is a worker fatality.

A fatality may impact the psychological wellbeing of your workers and the LGIS team can support and guide your staff at every step of the way in managing the incident.

What should you do?

One of the first things to do is contact LGIS and report the incident. The sooner we know what's happened the sooner we can start providing support and guidance.

Try to gather as much information as possible about the incident and let us know. This information should include details of the circumstances of the fatality, time and date of the incident, address or location of the incident, details of the deceased person, details of all investigative bodies involved (eg: police, WorkSafe, coroner) and contact details of the liaison person from the local government.

Our critical incident response team will advise if a claim needs to be lodged.

We can also provide legal aid if the member (councillors or employees) needs legal representation or support in the matter including a WorkSafe investigation.

For more details about the entire procedure, contact our LGIS claims team.