The accommodation services industry can pose health and safety risks for workers and visitors.
An electrical risk is something that can cause death, serious injury or shock. It can be direct or indirect contact.
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Workplace bullying is repeated, unreasonable behaviour directed at a worker (or group of workers).
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Explore our data through our new Interactive Dashboards and Data Insights on the Data website.
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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 an overview of COVID-19 related workers’ compensation claims data as at 31 July 2020. Data is broken down by claim type, industry, occupation, age and jurisdiction.
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Infographic summary of key findings from the Comparative performance monitoring report 21st edition – Part 2.
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Safe Work Australia compiles information on work-related injuries, diseases and fatalities in two primary datasets: the National Data Set for Compensation-Based Statistics and the Traumatic Injury Fatalities database. This document provides explanatory notes for the Traumatic Injury Fatalities database.
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Explanatory notes for the National Data Set for Compensation-Based Statistics.
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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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This report includes data broken down by sex, age, occupation, industry, nature of injury or disease, mechanism of injury or disease, and bodily location of the injury or disease.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 3: Premiums, entitlements and scheme performance.
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Part 3: Premiums, entitlements and scheme performance - compares the premium rates, entitlements and scheme performance of jurisdictions across Australia and New Zealand.
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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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This report provides statistics about workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 2: Work health and safety compliance and enforcement activities.
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Part 2: Work health and safety compliance and enforcement activities - Compares the number of workplace interventions, notices and legal proceedings across Australia and New Zealand.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 1: Work health and safety performance.
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Part 1: Work health and safety performance - Including comparing serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across states and territories.
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This questionnaire was used to collect data for the 2018 National Return to Work Survey.
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This report provides a comprehensive summary of the 2018 National Return to Work survey responses.
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This report provides a summary of two key measures from the 2017/18 Return to Work survey, the Returned to Work Rate and the Current Return to Work Rate.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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This snapshot provides work health and safety insights into the industries identified as a priority in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 3: Premium, entitlements and scheme performance.
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Part 3: Premium, entitlements and scheme performance - Compares workers' compensation premiums, entitlements and scheme performance across Australia and New Zealand.
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This report investigates the predictors of early retirement among middle-aged workers, with particular interest in the influence of unfavourable psychosocial working conditions like high job demands, low job control and high perceived job insecurity.
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Part 2: Work health and safety compliance and enforcement activities - Compares the number of workplace interventions, notices and legal proceedings across Australia and New Zealand.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 2: Work health and safety compliance and enforcement activities.
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This report provides statistics about workers' compensation claims in Australia.
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This report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work.
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Infographic summary of key findings Part 1: Work health and safety performance.
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Part 1: Work health and safety performance - Including comparing serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across states and territories.
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This report examines the scientific evidence on the link between diseases and workplace exposure.
Workers’ compensation authorities can use this report to revise the deemed diseases provisions in their workers’ compensation legislation.
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The Construction industry profile contains summary data relating to injuries incurred by workers employed in the construction industry as well as work-related fatalities.
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Biological hazards are organic substances that pose a threat to the health of humans and other living organisms. They include pathogenic micro-organisms, viruses (e.g. Hepatitis, HIV, avian flu, Q-fever), toxins, spores, fungi and bio-active substances.
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Erratum (June 2009)
Type of Occurrence Classification System 3rd Edition, Revision 1
The following errors have been found in the printed copy of the current manual.
These errors have been corrected in the current web PDF version of the publication.
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This fact sheet provides an overview of workers' compensation claims in the transport and storage sector in 2010-2011.
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The combination of hazards including remote and isolated work, makes agriculture one of the most dangerous industries in which to work.
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This infographic shows research and data about the most common causes of death and serious injury in the construction industry.
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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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The latest statistics cover the trends, gender and age comparisons and industry breakdowns for work health and safety in Australia.
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The latest statistics cover the trends, gender and age comparisons and industry breakdowns for work health and safety in Australia.
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This publication is a helpful resource for anyone who has an interest in work health and safety.
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This report provides a profile of the occupational and demographic characteristics of workers who reported dermal (or skin) exposure to chemicals at work, as well as the types of controls with which respondents reported they were provided in the workplace.
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