Australian workers continue to experience high rates of illness and injury from work

By
Ray Boekelaar
November 28, 2024
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Foreword

Today, Solve Safety is analysing and reviewing this latest reported Safe Work Australia’s (Australian Government Statutory Agency) News and Safety Alerts. Solve Safety is not identifying the nature of the specific problem of any person or organisation in this commentary but only speculating on what could be happening generally in a situation like this, as described by the Agency’s media press release.

Introduction

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Topic Elements

As a learning from the topic elements, Solve Safety has both analysed the background and the timeline of both how and why an incident like this could take place and what judgements or decision reasoning was reached by the workplace safety agency’s published conclusions.

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Background

According to Safe Work Australia’s recent news, Safe Work Australia has released their annual key workplace safety publication which is aimed at providing an analysed snapshot of the national data on work-related fatalities, injuries and disease. In this year’s report, Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2024 tragically shows an increase of workers fatally injured in the workplace in 2023 compared to the previous year 2022.

Are You Monitoring and Controlling Your High-risk Workplace Operational Obligations?

According to the Safe Work Australia’s report, it found that 76% of work-related traumatic injuries fatalities and 61% of serious workers compensation claims occurred in just the following six (6) industries:

  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing
  • Public administration and safety
  • Transport, postal and warehousing
  • Manufacturing
  • Health care and social assistance
  • Construction

As the workplace employer (duty Holders), have you ensured that your specific High-risk nominated Industry Operational Activities and Tasks’ current risk assessments (harm minimisation) controls have been reviewed and updated for their effectiveness, such as workplace activities and tasks for:

  • Vehicle and driver movements
  • Machinery operations and operators
  • Falls from height
  • Mental health conditions

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Commentary by Ray Boekelaar (Senior certified OHS/WHS Safety Consultant for www.solvesafety.com.au)

Ray Boekelaar is more than just a career “work retired” grandfather, father, and blogger, who loves AWD-SUV semi off road adventure camper traveling the highways and byways throughout the vast states and territories of the Australian continent. When he is not doing some casual OHS Safety or Real Estate Consulting for these respective organisations, as a “key opinion leader” (KOL) you will find him in between times trip planning historical tourist destinations and heading out into the sunset, on his next of many scheduled road touring travel adventures.

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