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in a permanent impairment, means loss or damage of a non-economic kind suffered by the employee (including pain and suffering, a loss of expectation of life or a loss of the amenities or enjoyment of life) as a result of that injury or impairment and of which the employee is aware (SRC Act, subsection 4(1)). See also the Principles of Assessment.
 Pain means physical pain.
 Permanent means 'likely to continue indefinitely' (SRC Act, subsection 4(1)). See also the Principles of Assessment.
 SRC Act means the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
 Suffering means the mental distress resulting from the injury or impairment.
 Whole person impairment (WPI) is the methodology used for expressing the degree of impairment of an employee, resulting from an injury, as a percentage. WPI is based on the AMA5. WPI is a medical quantification of the nature and extent of the effect of an injury on the employee's functional capacity including activities of daily living. This Guide presents descriptions of impairments in chapters and tables according to body system. The extent of each impairment is expressed as a percentage value of the functional capacity of a normal healthy person. See also the Principles of Assessment.

DIVISION 1 – ASSESSMENT OF THE DEGREE OF THE PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE RESULTING FROM AN INJURY

CHAPTER 1 – THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

1.0        Introduction