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Statement of commitment to occupational safety and health and injury management |
The occupational safety and health and injury management section in your annual report should set out your agency's occupational safety and health and injury management policies, and explain how they are communicated and implemented in the organisation. It should also outline your agency’s strategic goals and targets for occupational safety and health and injury management performance. |
| Formal mechanism for consultation with employees on OSH and injury management matters |
Briefly outline how consultation on occupational safety and health and injury management matters takes place between managers, employees, safety and health representatives and contractors. This should include the process for communicating this mechanism to employees.
An example would be:
"The Occupational Safety and Health Committee, including the employee representatives, form the key to occupational safety and health consultation within (the agency). The Committee members' appointment, location and details are communicated to all employees. The members are accessible and effectively utilised by both management and employees in the discussion and resolution of occupational safety and health issues.
The Occupational Safety and Health Committee meets bi-monthly to discuss and resolve occupational safety and health issues, review hazard and incident reports, and review progress against the Occupational Safety and Health Business Plan." |
| A statement of compliance with the injury management requirements of the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 |
The occupational safety and health section in your Annual Report should confirm your agency has in place a documented injury management system in accordance with the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981 and how it is made available to employees. It should also include a confirmation that return to work programs are developed in accordance with the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act 1981. |
| Fatalities |
Number of compensated work-related fatalities. |
| Lost time injury/disease (LTI/D) incidence rate |
Number of lost time injuries/diseases incidence rate (LTI/D) is the number of lost time injuries/diseases where one day/shift or more was lost, in the financial year per 100 employees:
The calculation is:
Number of LTI/D X 100
Number of employees
(Full time equivalents - FTEs) |
| Lost time injury severity rate |
This is a measure of accident prevention and the effectiveness of injury management.
The severity rate is the number of severe injuries (actual or estimated 60 days /shifts or more lost from work) divided by the number of lost time injuries multiplied by 100
The calculation is:
Number of severe injuries X 100
Number of lost time injuries
An injury resulting in death is considered to have accounted for more 60 days lost. |
| Percentage of injured workers returned to work within 28 weeks |
This is a measure of the success and effectiveness of the agency’s injury management practices in facilitating a sustainable return to work outcome for injured workers. The measure is the percentage of injured workers (lost time claims) that returned to work within 28 weeks. The data will be extracted for a specified time period covering 12 months.
The measure is calculated based on:
(i) the number of injured workers with a LTI/D claim, where time lost commenced during the 12 month specified period; and
(ii) the number of the injured workers reported in (i) who returned to work to full hours and full duties (of a real job) on or before 28 weeks.
The calculation is:
Number of LTI/Ds with a return
to work outcome within 28 weeks (ii) X 100
Number of LTI/Ds reported (i)
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| Managers training in OSH and injury management responsibilities |
Describe the occupational safety and health and injury management training provided for management. Report on the percentage of managers (anyone who supervises staff), who have received training in their responsibilities for occupational safety and health and injury management in the past three years. |
| OSH Management Systems |
An occupational safety and health management system is a documented and verifiable set of plans, actions and procedures that can assist both agencies and employees to clearly identify their occupational safety and health responsibilities and manage them in an organised manner.
Using the WorkSafe Plan or other audit tool compliant with the Australian Standard - AS 4801:2000, agencies are required to implement an occupational safety and health management system and self evaluate it on an annual basis or submit to an external evaluation by an accredited assessor every three years. |
