This report provides national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work.
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This infographic provides statistics about workers’ compensation claims in Australia.
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The Australian workers’ compensation statistics (AWCS) report provides detailed statistics about workers’ compensation claims that were lodged in Australia between 2000–01 and 2020–21, including preliminary data for 2020–21 and trend analysis to 2019–20.
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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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The Australian workers’ compensation statistics (AWCS) report provides detailed statistics about workers’ compensation claims that were lodged in Australia between 2000-01 and 2019-20, including preliminary data for 2019-20 and trend analysis to 2018-19.
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Safe Work Australia has published the Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities Australia 2020 report.
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Work-related traumatic injury fatalities Australia 2020 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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Safe Work Australia’s statistical reports released in 2021 mark the first time the data reference year includes periods when Australia was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Our latest publication provides an overview of national work-related fatality data for 2020 and workers’ compensation claims data for 2019-20.
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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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WHS reporting needs to provide relevant, robust and timely information to inform decisions that influence ongoing business performance.
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Quad bike fatalities data can now be seen on our new quad bike fatalities interactive data page on the Data website.
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Work-related fatalities data can now be seen on our new interactive data page on the Data website.
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The road transport industry involves transporting freight by road and operating buses and taxis to transport passengers.
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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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The manufacturing 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 workplaces safe from the risks associated with manufacturing.
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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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The accommodation services industry can pose health and safety risks for workers and visitors.
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Every year, quad bikes are a major cause of death and serious injury in rural workplaces. Many incidents involve rollovers.
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Explore our data through our new Interactive Dashboards and Data Insights on the Data website.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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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The Road Transport Industry Profile contains summary data relating to injuries incurred by workers employed in the road transport industry as well as work-related fatalities.
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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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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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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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