OHS Performance Measurement in the Construction Industry

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Including Victorian data (adjusted to allow for under-reporting of injuries with between five and ten days off work), the construction industry in 1995-96 had a national average of 32.8 compensated injuries or disease of five or more days duration per 1,000 workers. For Victoria during the same timeframe, the rate was 29.0 per 1,000 workers who sustained a work-related injury or disease of five days or more duration (Labour Ministers’ Council, 1998). Although the rate of new compensated injuries and disease cases reported in the construction industry per million hours worked remained higher in 1996-97 (18.5 per million hours worked) than the all-industry rate in Australia (excluding ACT and Victoria) (12.9 during the same timeframe), there has been a gradual decline from 1991-92 in the rate (Figure 6). Figure 6. New compensated cases reported in the construction industry. Rate per million hours worked - Australia (excluding ACT and Vic), 1991-97 Year 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 a: preliminary data. 1996-97a 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Rate per million hours worked Source: NOHSC (1998a) Compendium of Workers’ Compensation Statistics, Australia, 1996-97. Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra. Work-related fatalities reported in the National Data Set Preliminary data indicate that 404 compensated work-related deaths occurred during 1996-97 in Australia (excluding ACT and occupational disease deaths in Western Australia) and that 49 of these work-related deaths occurred in the construction industry (12%). Information from the NDS, taken during the same preliminary stage of the respective financial years in Australia (excluding ACT and occupational disease deaths in Western Australia), indicate that during 1994-95 there were 408 compensated work-related deaths (later revised to 418), of which 30 were of workers in the construction industry (7%) and that during 1995-96 there were 404 compensated work-related deaths (later revised to 409), of which 46 were of workers in the construction industry (11%). 10 OHS PERFORMANCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
It should be noted that not all work-related deaths involve a workers’ compensation payment being made. For instance, where the worker may be selfemployed or if the worker has no dependents to make a compensation claim, payment will usually not be made. The most recent national work-related fatality study showed that 30% of work-related traumatic deaths in the construction industry did not receive workers’ compensation (NOHSC, 1999). Work-related traumatic fatalities in Australia 1989-1992 Information regarding work-related traumatic fatalities of workers employed in the construction industry during both 1982 to 1984 (Harrison et al, 1989) and during 1989 to 1992 (NOHSC, 1998b) was obtained from investigations of coronial files. A detailed examination of fatalities in the construction industry during 1989 to 1992 is available in Work-related traumatic fatalities involving construction activities in Australia, 1989 to 1992 (NOHSC, 1999). During 1989 to 1992, there were 256 persons who were fatally injured as a result of construction activities in Australia. Of these 256 persons, 232 were workers who were employed in the construction industry, 18 were persons who were working, but who were not employed in the construction industry, but were fatally injured on a construction site and six were persons who were fatally injured as bystanders to construction work. Workers who were employed in the construction industry (excluding commuting deaths) had a fatality incidence rate of 10.4 per 100,000 workers per year during 1989 to 1992. This figure is a decrease from the previous national work-related fatalities study for the 1982 to 1984 period that reported a fatality incidence of 14.1 per 100,000 workers per year (Figure 7). However, fatalities in the construction industry during 1989 to 1992 remained double the all industry average of 5.5 deaths per 100,000 person years and equate to 58 workers employed in the construction industry being fatally injured at work each year. Figure 7. Rate 1 of traumatic work-related fatalities for the construction industry and all industries by year - Australia, 1982 to 1984, 1989 to 1992 Rate per 100,000 workers 21 18 15 1: Incidence rates - deaths per 100,000 workers per year - based on Employed Civilian Labour Force (ECLF). 12 9 6 3 0 All Industries Construction Industry 1982 1983 1984 1989 1990 1991 1992 Year DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 11
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contractor reported that he chose t
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Hazard management In general, hazar
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■ awareness and level of co-opera
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However, a distinction needs to be
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Types of performance indicators Per
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■ compensable injury rate; ■ mi
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■ Percentage change in the assess
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NOTE: It should be noted that the w
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Step 4 - Refine your KPIs Next, ref
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Appendixes Appendix 1 Performance M
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Incidents where a worker fell from
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Perception of risk of employees and
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References ABS. (1999a) Year Book A
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Shannon, H., Mayr, J. and Haines, T
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