The Commonwealth, states and territories regulate and enforce WHS laws.
Review of the model Work Health and Safety laws
Final Report
We collect, analyse and publish data and information on work health and safety and workers' compensation.
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Key work health and safety statistics
We publish a wide range of resources covering many work health and safety topics.
Read our Codes of Practice
Safe Work Australia is proud to announce the beta release of our new data website, data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au.
The new website delivers national work health and safety and workers’ compensation data in an intuitive, user-friendly way.
Please visit the website and fill out the short online questionnaire. Feedback can also be emailed to statsonline@swa.gov.au.
These datasets show work-related and quad bike fatalities nationally.
They help to reduce work-related deaths and inform policies and practices in:
work health and safety
We publish statistics as they become available on workers who were killed:
from injuries while working in Australia, by industry
from quad bike injuries
We also publish final data in the work-related traumatic injury fatalities database.
SWA is not a regulator and cannot advise you about WHS issues in the workplace. If you need help please contact your state or territory work health and safety authority.
