Every year, quad bikes are a major cause of death and serious injury in rural workplaces. Many incidents involve rollovers.
An electrical risk is something that can cause death, serious injury or shock. It can be direct or indirect contact.
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Despite being banned in 2003, thousands of buildings and machinery parts still contain asbestos.
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Explore our data through our new Interactive Dashboards and Data Insights on the Data website.
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Part 3 covers premiums, entitlements and scheme performance.
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Part 2 covers WHS compliance and enforcement activities.
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Part 1 covers WHS performance. It compares serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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This infographic provides statistics about workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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This report provides statistics about workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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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 3.
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Infographic summary of key findings from the Comparative performance monitoring report 21st edition – Part 1.
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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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Part 3 covers premiums, entitlements and scheme performance.
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Part 2 covers WHS compliance and enforcement activities.
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Part 1 compares serious claim rates and work-related fatalities across jurisdictions.
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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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This report provides a detailed examination of the causes, impacts and prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs).
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Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatality Time Series tables provide aggregated data from the Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities data set over the period of 2003–2021.
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This 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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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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The National dataset for compensation-based statistics (NDS) lists a standard set of data items, concepts and definitions for inclusion in workers’ compensation systems operating in Australia.
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This report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work.
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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 report offers insights into the behavioural and cultural factors and barriers which impact on the work health and safety practices of farmers.
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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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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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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 and safety generally and workpla
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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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