Australian workers continue to experience high rates of illness and injury from work, new data shows
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Australian workers continue to experience high rates of illness and injury from work, new data shows
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Safe Work Australia has updated the WHS prosecutions dashboard to reflect the latest publicly available data from 2023. It is now available on Safe Work Australia’s interactive data website, Our Data.
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Safe Work Australia has redesigned the preliminary fatalities dashboard to enable new insights into fatal injuries, and has released the first preliminary fatalities data for 2024.
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Today, Safe Work Australia released a new interactive data website that allows users to explore national work health and safety (WHS) and workers’ compensation data in an intuitive and user-friendly way.
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Safe Work Australia is proud to announce the beta release of our new data website, https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section has information about disputes against an insurer’s decision or decisions relating to compensation.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section illustrates the differences in entitlement levels across jurisdictions under several scenarios.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section provides a national and jurisdictional overview of the standardised average premium rates by industry in the past 5 years.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
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Safe Work Australia has published the Comparative performance monitoring report 24th edition, which provides the latest trend analyses on WHS and workers’ compensation schemes operating in Australia and New Zealand.
The report includes analysis of:
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The 24th edition is presented in the following sections:
Work health and safety performance
An overview of work health and safety performance across Australia and New Zealand through analysing trends in serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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The Work-related traumatic injury fatalities, Australia 2021 report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work. This report does not include fatalities that occurred while the worker was commuting to or from work (commuter fatalities).
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Each year, Safe Work Australia produces national work health and safety statistics, providing important evidence on the state of work health and safety in Australia.
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The report was updated 17 January 2023. The update affected page 11 of the report only.
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This report provides information about workers’ compensation arrangements and the differences between schemes in Australia and New Zealand.
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The methodological report supports the 2021 National Return to Work summary report and details the methodology followed in the compilation of the 2021 National Return to Work Survey.
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This report provides a summary of key measures from the 2021 National Return to Work Survey – the ‘returned to work rate’ and the ‘current return to work rate’.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section provides a national and jurisdictional overview of the standardised average premium rates by industry in the past 5 years.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section has information about disputes against an insurer’s decision or decisions relating to compensation.
/doc/workers-compensation-disputes-23rd
The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
/doc/workers-compensation-funding-assets-liabilities-and-expenditure-23rd
The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
This section illustrates the differences in entitlement levels across jurisdictions under several scenarios.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
The 23rd edition is presented in the following sections:
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
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The Comparative Performance Monitoring report analyses trends in WHS and workers’ compensation scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
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The 22nd edition is divided into three parts:
Part 1 covers WHS performance. It compares serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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The 21st edition is divided into three parts:
Part 1 covers WHS performance. It compares serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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The report facilitates the improvement of work health and safety, workers’ compensation and related service outcomes in Australia and New Zealand by:
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The 19th edition is divided into three parts:
Part 1 covers WHS performance. It compares serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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This includes trends, gender and age comparisons, and industry and occupation breakdowns for work health and safety and serious workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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This report provides a snapshot of COVID-19 related workers’ compensation claims from 1 January to 31 December 2020.
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Today’s society is increasingly focused on a 24/7 economy and the expectations on people to work at all hours of the day have increased.
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WHS reporting needs to provide relevant, robust and timely information to inform decisions that influence ongoing business performance.
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Costs of work-related fatalities, injuries and diseases data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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Work-related diseases data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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Work-related diseases data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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Work-related diseases data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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You can request data via our new Request data form on the Data website.
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About our data can now be seen on our new about page on the Data website.
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Work-related injuries data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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National Return to Work outcomes data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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Work-related diseases data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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Explore our data through our new Interactive Dashboards and Data Insights on the Data website.
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The public administration and safety industry has a high number of work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses.
As a person conducting a business or undertaking, you have a duty to keep workers and your workplace safe.
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Construction work is particularly dangerous.
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The agriculture industry includes businesses that:
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grow and cultivate horticultural and other crops (except forestry)
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breed, raise or farm animals (except aquaculture).
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