
Cover for site and offshore work depends on what you do and where, your roster and contracts, and any cover through your employer or super. We can help you check any cover, compare options and lodge a claim with you.





What we advise on
Should illness or injury take you off the roster for a while, what could keep part of your pay coming in?
Income protection can pay part of your income after a waiting period, to help with household costs while you recover.
Together, we’ll compare income protection around how roster work is paid, from base rate to allowances and overtime.
After a waiting period, income protection can pay part of your income while illness or injury keeps you from working, subject to the policy’s terms. Insurers usually work out the benefit from your earnings in the 12 months before the illness or injury, using the policy’s own definition of income. Waiting periods can range from 14 days to 2 years, and some policies only cover you if you work a minimum number of hours each week.
What we work through with you on income protection:
Could the people who rely on you keep up with what your site pay covers if you were no longer here?
Life cover can pay a lump sum to your beneficiaries, helping them meet debts, everyday costs and plans already under way.
We’ll work out a life cover amount with you from the debts and costs your household carries.
Life insurance can pay a lump sum to your beneficiaries if you pass away, and some policies include a terminal illness benefit. When life cover comes packaged with TPD or trauma, a payment on another claim in the package may reduce the life amount. Without a nominated beneficiary, the payment may go to your estate or be decided by the super trustee.
What we work through for life cover:
Which of your plans would still be funded if you could never work again?
If you can’t work again as the policy defines it, TPD cover can pay a lump sum towards debts and your plans.
We can read TPD definitions with you against the skills, tickets and experience a site role uses.
TPD insurance can pay a lump sum if illness or injury leaves you unlikely to work again, under the policy’s definition. An own occupation definition looks at your usual job, while an any occupation definition looks at any job suited to your education, training or experience. Own occupation cover is usually only available outside super, and whether it’s offered can depend on the insurer and your occupation. TPD cover in super usually ends at age 65.
What we compare with you for TPD:
After a serious diagnosis, how would treatment, travel for care and time away from site be paid for?
A trauma policy can pay a lump sum when a listed condition meets its definition and isn’t excluded.
Together, we’ll read what a trauma policy lists, and how its lump sum would sit beside income protection.
Trauma cover lists the critical illnesses and serious injuries it covers, and the medical definitions behind each one can differ between insurers. Insurers usually ask about your job and lifestyle when you apply. New trauma cover can’t be held inside super, which has been the rule for policies written since 1 July 2014.
What we read with you in a trauma policy:
Does any cover in your super still match the site work you do now?
Checking each fund you hold together can show what cover you have, so you can keep the cover that suits your work.
We can check any cover in each fund and set out any changes in a financial plan, or Statement of Advice.
Default cover inside super can usually be issued without medical checks, though it may carry pre-existing condition rules set out in the fund’s PDS, and increasing it is usually underwritten like any other application. Premiums for cover in super come out of your balance, so each fund you hold may be charging for its own cover.
What we look at in your super with you:
As you move between rosters, contracts and employers, how could your cover keep pace with each change?
Knowing what each piece of cover relies on can help you keep it in step with the work you do.
We can map any cover through your employer, an agreement and your funds with you, and what each one relies on.
For cover in super, Moneysmart suggests asking the fund what happens to it if you change jobs. A business contracting with you as an individual may have to pay your super when you’re paid mainly for your labour, for your own skills rather than a result, and you do the work yourself. A contract with your company, trust or partnership is different: the business doesn’t have to pay super for whoever that entity employs.
What we map with you across rosters and contracts:
When work takes you offshore or overseas, what could change for any cover you hold?
Looking at your cover before a rotation starts can help you keep what suits you and plan for any change.
We’ll start with where you’re based and where you work, then look at your cover with you before a rotation begins.
A non-resident employer doesn’t have to pay super for resident employees for work they do outside Australia, while an Australian employer generally keeps paying super for temporary overseas work. An insurer can ask about regular travel and work overseas when you apply.
What we look at with you before you work offshore or overseas:
Should you ever need to claim, who could work through each step and form with you?
Having a claim lodged with you and followed up with the insurer can leave you more room for recovery.
We can lodge a claim with you and stay in touch with the insurer or fund while it assesses the claim.
Moneysmart suggests speaking first to whoever you arranged the cover through: the fund, the insurer, a financial adviser or, for cover through work, your employer. An insurer can ask for medical reports, your work duties and physical requirements, your weekly hours, and payslips or tax returns. The insurer or fund assesses the claim, and a complaint goes to the insurer or super fund first, then to AFCA if unresolved.
How we help with a claim:
Your work and your cover
This list isn’t complete, and nothing on it decides anything on its own. We start by learning about your situation, and any decision on cover is the insurer’s.
Your options
| A Ryker financial adviser | Directly from an insurer | An online broker or comparison site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of advice | Personal advice Personal adviceAdvice tailored to you. Like most financial advice, it’s given under an Australian financial services licence.Personal, not general. General advice is a recommendation or opinion that doesn’t consider your circumstances. Personal advice is tailored to your objectives, financial situation and needs.In your best interests. When we give you personal advice, the law requires us to act in your best interests.In writing. You’ll usually receive a Statement of Advice that explains the strategies and cover recommended to you, and why.On the public register. Financial advisers who give personal advice on life insurance, super and investments must be on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register. See our financial advisers on the register:Ray RegmiRicky (Rajiv) RegmiJack OinezaDean DesoukeyRyker’s financial advisers are authorised representatives of Synchron Advice Pty Ltd, AFSL 243313. | Usually general advice | Usually general advice |
| Advice that considers your health, family, work and goals | Yes, as part of your advice | Not with general advice | Not with general advice |
| Choice of insurers | A wide range | That insurer’s policies only | A panel of insurers, side by side |
| Help preparing your application | Yes, alongside you | The insurer’s own process | Varies |
| Advice on holding cover inside or outside super | Part of your advice | Not with general advice | Not with general advice |
| Support if you need to claim | Yes, we’re in your corner | The insurer’s claims team | Varies |
| Cost of advice | No cost for the initial conversation. Any advice after that is a paid service, with its scope and fee agreed with you in writing first. Choose: | No separate advice fee | No separate advice fee |














Your Role and Site Duties Set Out
Your duties, roster and any work underground or offshore, described in full on any application.
Employer and Super Cover Mapped
Any cover through a site employer, an agreement and each fund, listed with what each one relies on.
Roster Pay Set Out for Income Protection
Base pay, allowances and overtime set out clearly against how each policy defines income.
Cover Checked Before a Contract Gap
Any insurance in your funds looked at before a gap between contracts.
Cover Reviewed Before an Overseas Rotation
Any cover you hold, and how your super is paid while you work overseas, looked at before you fly out.
TPD Definitions Weighed for Site Skills
Your tickets and experience under any occupation wording, and whether an insurer offers own occupation for site roles.
Beneficiaries Kept Up to Date
Nominations in each fund and policy looked at again after a new contract, fund or family change.
A Claim Lodged With You
A claim prepared and lodged with you, then followed up while the insurer assesses it.

We start by listening to how your work runs: what you do, where you do it, how you’re paid and what you’d like your cover to do. We meet in person or online, so our conversations can be planned around your time at home. We explain each type of cover in plain terms, answer your questions as they come up and go at a pace that suits you. Every decision along the way is yours to make.
While you’re on site, we take on the paperwork. With your consent, we can request insurance details from any fund that holds cover for you, gather fund statements, payslips and any employer cover documents, and follow up with insurers while they assess an application. If someone at home shares your plans, they can join any conversation, whether you’re on site or on R&R. If you ever need to claim, we’ll lodge the claim with you and keep you updated until the insurer has made its decision.
Every financial decision impacts the next
Great advice starts with understanding the bigger picture. Every stage of life presents new opportunities and challenges, from buying property and changing careers to growing your family, planning for retirement and protecting what matters most. At Ryker, we help connect every piece of your financial world into one clear strategy.
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Ryker’s financial advisers are licensed to give personal advice under Synchron Advice’s Australian financial services licence (AFSL 243313). We start with you: your roster on site or offshore, your family, work, income, assets and goals. Then we recommend the types and amounts of cover that suit your life.
Working fly-in fly-out, underground, on plant or offshore can mean long rosters, contracts that end, cover through an employer and travel overseas. Any of these can shape how an insurer looks at an application and how a policy pays, so your duties, roster, travel and pay are all part of what we look at.
With a financial adviser, you also have:
Going directly to an insurer can mean no separate advice fee, but you’ll only see that insurer’s policies, and you’ll generally receive general advice only, which doesn’t consider your personal circumstances.
Going through an online comparison site or broker, you may see more options side by side, but they also generally provide general advice only, which doesn’t consider your whole financial picture.
When we give you personal advice, the law requires us to act in your best interests, which we take personally. The insurer still decides whether to offer cover and on what terms.
We’re invested in your long-term success. What we do is personal, and we take it personally.
Your financial decisions connect, so we consider the parts of your financial life that are relevant to the advice you need:
This is how we help you make decisions today with your longer-term goals in view.
Everybody’s situation is different, so we listen first, understand what matters to you and explain your options clearly before we make a recommendation.
It depends on how the cover is arranged. Any cover a site employer or agreement provides relies on that employment, so what happens to it when you leave is a question for the employer.
Cover in super works differently. When you start a new job, your employer generally pays into your existing super fund unless you choose another; a default fund applies only if you have no fund.
We can list any cover you hold with you and compare personal cover before or after a contract ends. The insurer decides on any application and its terms.
Income protection is usually based on your earnings in the 12 months before an illness or injury, so months of heavy overtime, shutdown work or a gap between contracts can all sit inside that window. Whether allowances and overtime count depends on each policy’s definition of income.
Some policies only cover you if you work a minimum number of hours each week, so how your hours fall across a roster is worth setting out. Paid sick leave for full-time and part-time employees builds on ordinary hours and is kept in hours, so any balance is worth reading in hours against the waiting period you choose. We can compare policies with you on each of these points.
A site injury may be covered by workers compensation if you’re eligible. Workers compensation is separate, through a state, territory or Commonwealth scheme. It’s for employees injured at work or made sick by their work, and the scheme handles that claim under its own rules.
A personal income protection policy can pay part of your income after a waiting period if illness or injury stops you working, on site or away from it, subject to the policy’s terms. Some policies reduce their payments by any workers compensation or sick leave paid at the same time, so the PDS is worth reading for these offsets. If you need to claim, we can lodge the personal policy claim with you, while any workers compensation claim stays with your employer and the scheme.
A non-resident employer doesn’t have to pay super for resident employees for work they do outside Australia, while an Australian employer generally keeps paying super for temporary overseas work.
An application can ask about regular travel and work overseas, including where you go and for how long, so your rotations are worth setting out accurately. Tax residency is a question for your accountant. We can look at any cover you hold with you, and compare options, before a rotation starts.
Insurers usually ask about your job, and the questions can reach into your duties, hours and travel. Since 5 October 2021, the duty when applying for consumer life cover is to take reasonable care not to make a misrepresentation, which means answering the questions asked with reasonable care. If you leave out important details, the insurer may change or cancel your cover or refuse a claim (Moneysmart).
For site work, that means describing your duties as they are: underground or surface, operating plant or maintaining it, any time in the office, your weekly hours and any regular travel. The insurer decides how it views each answer and what it offers. We can prepare the application with you.
Start with the debt itself. A home loan taken out on site pay, plus any other debts, sets a base for the lump sum, along with what the people who rely on your income would need for everyday costs if you were no longer here.
Any life cover you hold in super or in a policy is then counted against that total. A move to a local wage, a new contract or a bigger loan are each good points to look at the amount again. No rule of thumb fits everyone, so we can work through each part with you, and the insurer decides on the cover it offers.
A quote is built from the answers you give to the questions on screen, which makes it quick. It can’t look across any cover you hold through a site employer, an agreement or each super fund, or weigh how an income definition treats allowances and overtime.
Personal advice starts from the whole picture: your duties, roster and travel, your household’s costs and any policy you already hold. We then compare cover from a wide range of insurers with you, and the insurer decides on any application and its terms.
Your accountant and financial adviser bring different expertise to the same decisions. Your accountant can advise on tax reporting, structures and consequences; we help you plan how cashflow, debt, super, investments and protection work towards your goals. We can coordinate before important decisions.
What an accountant does
What a financial adviser does
Professional roles and authorisations matter. We provide financial advice within our authorisations and work with your accountant for specialist tax advice and lodgements.
Where they work together
Yes. Fly-in fly-out, drive-in or offshore, we start with the work you do, how you’re paid and what you’d like your cover to protect.
There’s no cost for the initial conversation. Any advice after that is a paid service, with its scope and fee agreed with you in writing first. It helps to bring a payslip showing allowances and overtime, your roster, a statement from each super fund, any employer or agreement cover documents and any policy you hold, and we’ll agree on a sensible next step together.
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