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Know your duties - a tool for working safely
This tool provides information about duties under the model WHS laws, including duties for PCBUs and workers in the agriculture industry, how to meet these duties, and hazards you may face working in agriculture.
24 August 2016 |
Statistical reports
This report provides statistics on workers’ compensation claims that involved musculoskeletal disorders.
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17 August 2016 |
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Recommendation 18 of the 2012 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Education and Employment report, Workplace Bullying: “We just want it to stop”, requested an annual update of trends in workers’ compensation data relating to psychosocial health…
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11 May 2016 |
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A random, population-based sample of 5,528 Australian workers participated in the Australian Work Exposure Study (AWES). Workers answered questions about the tasks they completed and the controls used at work. Based on their responses to those questions,…
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18 March 2016 |
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Safe Work Australia’s emerging issues surveillance program identifies new priority issues which can affect workers’ health and safety, and undertakes and disseminates research to investigate these. As part of this program, Safe Work Australia…
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02 December 2015 |
Statistical reports
The publication provides a concise and factual statistical profile of mental disorders as compensated by Australian workers’ compensation schemes. It shows statistics on how many Australians are awarded a mental disorder claim each year to allow…
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29 October 2015 |
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The purpose of this 2015 study is to estimate the cost of work-related injury and illness to Australian employers, workers and the community.
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14 October 2015 |
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This paper is one in a series of research papers on the role of accounting in work health and safety governance.
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01 October 2015 |
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This infographic provides information about the causes of the high number of worker fatalities and injuries in the manufacturing industry.
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10 November 2014 |
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This study examined 523 worker fatalities for which there was sufficient information on the circumstances to make a judgement on the contribution of unsafe design to the incident.
Of these, 63 fatalities (12%) were determined to have been either…
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21 November 2013 |
Corporate publications
This guide explains how progress on the outcome reduced incidence of work-related death, injury and illness will be measured for the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012–2022.
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01 November 2013 |
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This project was undertaken by Instinct and Reason Pty Ltd under commission from Safe Work Australia. The report describes the findings of a qualitative research study on the structural metal product manufacturing industry—an industry with a high rate of…
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19 July 2013 |
Statistical reports
The report The relationship between work characteristics, wellbeing, d
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