A person who voluntarily and without obligation engages in any ambulance work with the consent of or under the authority and supervision of or in cooperation with the Health Administration Corporation constituted by the Health Administration Act 1982 ,  Schedule 1 , Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 

A person who voluntarily and without obligation engages in fighting a bush fire in any fire district constituted under the Fire Brigades Act 1989 or is undergoing training for the purposes of fighting bush fires in those circumstances —  Schedule 1 , 1998 Act .

A person who meets the definition of volunteer contained under the Workers Compensation (Bush Fire, Emergency and Rescue Services) Act 1987 i.e. Rural Fire Service, State Emergency Service, Surf Life Saving, Volunteer Rescue Association and Marine Rescue Service.

Under certain Acts, volunteers assisting Government Agencies are entitled to compensation in accordance with the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 if injured while carrying out specified duties. Volunteers covered include:

• volunteer auxiliary workers, officers and volunteer members of the Country Fire Authority ( Country Fire Authority Act 1956 )
• volunteer emergency workers ( Emergency Management Act 1986 )
• volunteers assisting police officers ( Police Assistance Compensation Act 1968 )
• volunteer school workers or volunteer student workers ( Education Training and Reform Act 2006 )
• jurors ( Juries Act 2000 )
• volunteers in prisons and offenders working or participating in a program under a Correctional Order ( Sentencing Act 1991 or Corrections Act 1986 ), and
• registered and casual emergency workers ( Victorian State Emergency Service Act 2005, Emergency Management Act 1986 ).

Volunteer firefighters are also able to access presumptive compensation for specified cancers contracted as a firefighter under the  Firefighters' Presumptive Rights Compensation and Fire Services Legislation  Amendment (Reform) Act 2019 

Workers’ compensation coverage may extend to the following volunteers if WorkCover has entered into a contract of insurance with the responsible authority/person/charitable institution/not-for-profit organisation:

• particular persons under Disaster Management Act 2003 
• volunteer fire fighter or volunteer fire warden honorary ambulance officers
• rural fire brigade member
• person in voluntary or honorary position with religious, charitable or benevolent organisation
• person in voluntary or honorary position with non-profit organisation, and
• persons performing community service or unpaid duties.

Schedule 1 of the Return to Work 2014 establishes the Crown as the presumptive employer of volunteers as prescribed by the regulations and members of the SA Country Fire Service.

Regulation 69 prescribes South Australian State Emergency Services, marine rescue members and volunteer fire-fighters as a class of person covered by the Act.

Volunteers performing police operations  s6A , performing fire-fighting operations and fire prevention operations  s5 , providing ambulance services  s6 , or performing work of a prescribed class which is of benefit to the State  s6B (none currently prescribed for the purpose of this section), Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988. 

Volunteer emergency management workers participating in emergency management or rescue and retrieval operations as defined under the Emergency Management Act 2006   S56(2) .

Emergency service volunteers -  s3(7) 

Volunteer fire fighters -  s3(8) and  s3(8A) 

St John Ambulance volunteers -  reg 3A(1)(a) 

s17A — an individual who is engaged to perform work for someone else, and receives no payment for the work.

s18 – commercial voluntary workers (e.g. volunteer marshals at an event run by a corporation incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)).

s19 – public interest voluntary workers.

CSIRO — volunteer fellows

Volunteers who assist in the running of the Australian National Gallery, Australian War Memorial, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian National Maritime Museum, Australian Nature Conservation Agency, National Science and Technology Centre (Questacon) National Museum of Australia and Old Parliament House.

Volunteers in connection with Australian Film, Television and Radio School 

Volunteers in connection with lighthouse keeping on Maatsuyker Island

Volunteers in relation to search and rescue services and training exercises provided by Australian Maritime Safety Authority

Volunteers who participate in recruit training exercise for the Australian Protective Service

Volunteers promoting the House of Representatives and the Parliament to the community

Volunteers providing firefighting, search and rescue and first aid services, attending environmental incidents and taking part in training exercises for the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority

Volunteers assisting the Department of the Environment and Heritage (excluding the Bureau of Meteorology) and the Director of National Parks

Volunteers assisting the National Capital Authority in fostering an awareness of Canberra as the National Capital

Volunteers assisting in the administration of the CHOGM 2001, 2002

Volunteers assisting the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust

Volunteers assisting in APEC 2007

ACT COVID-19 emergency volunteers identified by the ACT Chief Health Officer

Others as declared from time to  time by the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988