Monash Health Annual Report 2018-2019

Occupational health and safety
The physical health, safety and overall wellbeing of our employees
is of paramount importance. We are committed to providing a
workplace that promotes and facilitates employee wellbeing and
safety to ensure they return to work each day safe and well.
We implemented an Occupational Health and Safety Strategy
2018-2023 this year and focused on supporting our people in the
workplace by:
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Developing safety leadership through development and
implementation of eLearning modules, guidance material and
tools
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Actively engaging people in their health, safety and wellbeing
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Enhancing injury management processes to be more people
focused.
Our actions this year and the commitment of our people and
managers has resulted in a 17 per cent reduction in lost time
injuries, greater than 80 per cent completion of workplace
inspections and more than 70 per cent of people completing
mandatory Occupational Violence and Aggression and
Occupational Health and Safety training.
We continue to work collaboratively to care for the physical and
psychological health, safety and overall wellbeing of our people.
Occupational Health and Safety statistics
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
The number of reported hazards/incidents for the year per 100 FTE
employees
The number of ‘lost time’ standard claims for the year per 100 FTE
employees
32.23 32.44 30.83
1.72 1.50 1.63
The average cost per claim for the year $49,604 $61,722 $52,495
The number of standard claims 190 179 204
Occupational violence
2017-18 2018-19
WorkCover accepted claims with an occupational violence cause
per 100 FTE
Number of accepted WorkCover claims with lost time injury with an
occupational violence cause per 1,000,000 hours worked
0.35 0.39
1.71 1.0
Number of occupational violence incidents reported 1,327 1,262
Number of occupational violence incidents reported per 100 FTE 11.47 10.20
Percentage of occupational violence incidents resulting in employee
injury, illness or condition*
38.43 59.75
*In 2018-19 the definition of injury changed to include incidents where an illness or condition occurred, but no treatment was required.
Definitions
Occupational violence - Any incident where an employee is
abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances arising out of,
or in the course of their employment.
Incident - An event or circumstance that could have resulted
in, or did result in, harm to an employee. Incidents of all severity
rating must be included. Code Grey reporting is not included,
however, if an incident occurs during the course of a planned or
unplanned Code Grey, the incident must be included.
Accepted WorkCover claims - Accepted Workcover claims
that were lodged in 2017-18.
Lost time - Defined as greater than one day.
Injury, illness or condition - This includes all reported harm
as a result of the incident, regardless of whether the employee
required time off work or submitted a claim.
Full time equivalent (FTE) - FTE figures required in the
above table should be calculated consistent with the Workforce
information FTE calculation.
Workforce data
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