Work-related injuries and diseases Serious compensation claims workers’ Safe Work Australia compiles national compensation statistics using data obtained from jurisdictional workers’ workers’ compensation authorities. These data are collated into the National Data Set for Compensation-Based Statistics, which is Safe Work of information on compensated work-related injuries and diseases. Australia’s primary source A serious claim is an accepted compensation claim that involves one or more weeks away from work and excludes all workers’ fatalities, and all injuries and diseases experienced while travelling to or from work or while on a break away from the workplace. Preliminary data are denoted by and are subject to revision. ‘p’ Trends in rates of serious claims, 2000–01 to 2012–13p Source: Statistics, 2012–13, Safe Work Australia. Australian Workers’ Compensation Serious claims by sex, 2012–13p Frequency rate Number of (serious claims Incidence rate Number of Percentage of serious Percentage of per million hours (serious claims per Sex employees employees claims serious claims worked) 1000 employees) Male 5 555 000 52% 74 705 63% 7.1 13.4 Female 5 044 000 48% 43 115 37% 6.1 8.5 Total 10 599 000 100% 117 815 100% 6.7 11.1 Statistics, 2012–13, Safe Work Australia. Source: Australian Workers’ Compensation Serious claims: median time lost and median compensation paid, 2011–12 Median time lost Median compensation Sex from work (weeks) paid
Work-related injuries and diseases Serious workers’ compensation claims Safe Work Australia compiles national workers’ compensation statistics using data obtained from jurisdictional workers’ compensation authorities. These data are collated into the National Data Set for Compensation-Based Statistics, which is Safe Work Australia’s primary source of information on compensated work-related injuries and diseases. A serious claim is an accepted workers’ compensation claim that involves one or more weeks away from work and excludes all fatalities, and all injuries and diseases experienced while travelling to or from work or while on a break away from the workplace. Preliminary data are denoted by ‘p’ and are subject to revision. Trends in rates of serious claims, 2000–01 to 2012–13p Source: Australian Workers’ Compensation Statistics, 2012–13, Safe Work Australia. Serious claims by sex, 2012–13p Sex Number of employees Percentage of employees Number of serious claims Percentage of serious claims Frequency rate (serious claims per million hours worked) Incidence rate (serious claims per 1000 employees) Male 5 555 000 52% 74 705 63% 7.1 13.4 Female 5 044 000 48% 43 115 37% 6.1 8.5 Total 10 599 000 100% 117 815 100% 6.7 11.1 Source: Australian Workers’ Compensation Statistics, 2012–13, Safe Work Australia. Serious claims: median time lost and median compensation paid, 2011–12 Sex Median time lost from work (weeks) Median compensation paid