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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 statistics about workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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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 provides statistics about workers' compensation claims in Australia.
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This report provides work health and safety statistics for agricultural workers

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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 estimation of societal and system impacts.

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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 is designated as a priority industry for work health and safety as per the

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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.

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The report 

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The report 'The relationship between work characteristics, wellbeing, depression and workplace bullying' describes the early findings from a project conducted as a partnership between Safe Work Australia and The Australian National University.

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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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