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Occupational Health and Safety Statistics

1988 - 2004

A uniform injury/exposure reporting system was introduced to The Australian National University in 1988. The initial paper-based process was replaced by the current web-based reporting in 2001.  As well as acting as the "Notice Of Injury" form for workers' compensation purposes, the reporting system is used to generate the following OHS statistics.

A.     Number of work and employment injuries
B.     Number of more severe work and employment injuries (5+ days)
C.     Incidence of work and employment injuries by OHS category
D.     Incidence of more severe work and employment injuries by OHS category (5+ days)
E.    Work injuries by Budget Centre
 

In Australia, a work injury is recorded in terms of the incapacity to perform work for one or more successive working days. The work injury incidence is reported as number of work injuries per 100 equivalent full-time employees per year.

The ANU has performed well in terms of this measure in during the current reporting year, maintaining a trend established over previous years.

Work injury data from the Australian workforce is collected by the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission and is available at http://www.nohsc.gov.au/Statistics/publications/#compendium
 

A. Number of Work and Employment Injuries

Year Equivalent full-time employees Total reported employment injuries Employment injuries with no lost-time Work injuries with
lost-time		 Commuting injuries with lost-time Recreational injuries with lost-time
1988-89 3422 427 291 113 16 7
1989-90 3205 378 280 84 8 6
1990-91 3280 390 312 64 9 5
1991-92 3430 362 273 66 20 3
1992-93 3705 323 232 74 12 5
1993-94 3719 400 307 71 14 8
1994-95 3724 415 307 79 22 7
1995-96 3655 458 359 77 13 9
1996-97 3460 358 281 54 18 2
1997-98 3227 377 306 51 18 2
1998-99 3188 338 285 42 10 1
1999-00 3086 365 308 42 12 3
2000-01 3074 365 306 46 11 2
2001-02 3318 434 406 23 5 0
2002-03 3180 488 447 41      
2003-04 3387 451 404 47      

The major injury agents for the 23 lost-time injuries were acute kinetic events (slips/trips/falls = 2; sprain/strain = 3; manual handling = 3 ) and chronic occupational strains = 6.

These injury agents from the previous year were acute kinetic events (slips/trips/falls = 2; sprain/strain = 3; manual handling = 3) and chronic occupational strains = 6.

Note the wide variation in the number of commuting injuries from year to year. The 95% confidence interval for a Poisson distribution with an average of 13 random events is 7-22 events.

B. Number of More Severe Work and Employment Injuries (5+ days)

Year Equivalent full-time employees Employment injuries with lost-time 5 days or more Work injuries with lost-time 
5 days or more		 Commuting injuries with lost-time 5 days or more Recreational injuries with lost-time 5 days or more
1988-89 3422 50 42 6 2
1989-90 3205 35 30 3 2
1990-91 3280 27 23 2 2
1991-92 3430 29 24 5 0
1992-93 3705 29 23 3 3
1993-94 3719 29 24 3 2
1994-95 3724 39 29 8 2
1995-96 3655 32 28 2 2
1996-97 3460 27 19 7 1
1997-98 3227 23 17 4 2
1998-99 3188 17 12 4 1
1999-00 3086 15 12 1 2
2000-01 3074 19 14 4 1
2001-02 3318 8 7 1 0
2002-03 3180 32         
2003-04 3387 42         

 

The major injury agents for the 7 lost-time 5+ days for 2003-04 were acute events (strains = 1 , manual handling = 1 , cuts = 0 , falls = 1) and occupational disease events (chronic occupational strains = 3, stress = 0).

These injury agents from the previous year were acute events (strains = 1, manual handling = 1, cuts = 0, falls = 1) and occupational disease events (chronic occupational strains = 3, stress = 0).

Graph - OHS Incident Data

C. Incidence of Work and Employment Injuries by OHS Category

Year Work Injury Rate, WIR* Occupational injury rate Occupational disease rate Commuting
injury rate		 Recreational
injury rate
1988-89 3.3 2.6 0.7 0.5 0.2
1989-90 2.6 2.1 0.5 0.3 0.2
1990-91 2.0 1.6 0.4 0.3 0.2
1991-92 1.9 1.5 0.4 0.6 0.1
1992-93 2.0 1.8 0.2 0.3 0.1
1993-94 1.9 1.7 0.2 0.4 0.2
1994-95 2.1 1.7 0.4 0.6 0.1
1995-96 2.1 1.7 0.4 0.4 0.2
1996-97 1.5 1.2 0.3 0.5 0.1
1997-98 1.6 1.4 0.2 0.6 0.1
1998-99 1.3 1.1 0.2 0.3 0.1
1999-00 1.4 1.3 0.1 0.4 0.1
2000-01 1.5 1.2 0.3 0.4 0.1
2001-02 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.2 0
2002-03 1.3            
2003-04 1.4            

* Work Injury Rate, WIR: The number of lost-time work injuries occurring per 100 employees per year. It includes only occupational injuries and occupational diseases.
 

D. Incidence of More Severe Work and Employment Injuries by OHS Category (5+ days)

Year Work Injury Rate**
(5+ days lost)		 Occupational injury rate
(5+ days lost)		 Occupational disease rate
(5+ days lost)		 Commuting
injury rate
(5+ days lost)		 Recreational
injury rate
(5+ days lost)
1988-89 1.2 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.1
1989-90 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.1
1990-91 0.7 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1
1991-92 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.1 0 
1992-93 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1
1993-94 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1
1994-95 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.1
1995-96 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.1
1996-97 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1
1997-98 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.1
1998-99 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1
1999-00 0.4 0.3 0.1 <0.1 0.1
2000-01 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.1 <0.1
2001-02 0.2 0.1 0.1 <0.1 0
2002-03 1.0            
2003-04 1.2            

 

Graph - ANU OHS Incident Data

E. Work Injuries by Budget Centre

Budget Centre No. of work injuries/year
1988-01            2001-02 		Work Injury Rate, WIR
1988-01           2001-02
Institute of Adv'd Studies  23                     7  1.5                       .7 
  JCSMR  6                       4 2                         2
  RSAA  1                       0 2                         0
  RSBS  4                        3 2                         2
  RSC  2                        0 1                         0
  RSES 1                        0 1                         0
  RSISE 0                        0 0                         0
  RSPAS/RSSS 5                        0 2                         0
  RSPhysSE 4                        0 2                         0
The Faculties 10                      1 1.4                      0.1
  Administration               2                       0               3                         0
  Arts 0                        0 0                        0
  Asian Studies 0                        0   0                         0 
  Economics & Commerce 0                        0 0                         0
  Law 0                        0 0                         0
  FEIT 2                        0 2                        0
  Science 6                        1 2                         1
National Institute of the Arts 2                        2 1.3                    1.3
Centres 1                        1 0.8                    0.5
Library 4                        2 2.5                    1.5
Administrative Divisions 18                      9 3.4                    1.2
  University Executive  0                        1  0                        6
  Human Resources Division 4                         2 3                         3
  Finance and Business Services 0                         0 0                         0
  Facilities & Services 12                       5 10                       4
  SASS, SRIE 2                         0   2                         0 
  Marketing and Communications 0                         1    0                         5 
Central Division 1                         0 3                         0
  MIS Division 0                         0 0                         0
  IT Services 1                         0 2                         0
University Business Units 8                        1 4.8                   0.8
  CCE 0                         0 0                         0 
  University House 5                         0 6                         0
  Halls of Residence 2                         0            4                         0 
  University Accommodation 1                         1  3                        11
     
ANU  1.7                     0.7