Transcript National_Strategy_Workshop_Opening_Speech

National Work Health and
Safety Strategy 2012 – 2022
Rex Hoy
Chief Executive Officer
Safe Work Australia
Improving industry performance Australia
Claims per 1000 employees
30
25
20
15
10
base period
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09adj
Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Construction
Health & community services
Manufacturing
Transport & storage
Australia
Workers’ compensation claims per thousand employees – Priority Industries
Reducing injuries - Australia
workers’ compensation claims per
thousand workers which were due to
injuries and musculoskeletal damage
Workers’ compensation claims
for injuries and musculoskeletal damage per thousand workers
Reducing fatalities - Australia
Occupational diseases
Trend over Occupational Disease
time
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Musculoskeletal disorders
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Infectious and parasitic
diseases
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Respiratory diseases
Mental disorders
Noise-induced hearing
loss
Contact dermatitis
Cardiovascular disease
Occupational cancers
National Strategy implementation ̶
political and organisational changes
Some loss of focus in current National Strategy due
to
• organisational restructures (change from
NOHSC to ASCC and to Safe Work Australia)
• changing political context
Implementation problems
 Implementation planning patchy or absent
 Lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities
 Roles for social partners not clear
 Poor coordination of efforts
 Variable resourcing levels
Loss of momentum in
 Occupational diseases
 Skills
 Safe design
Work Health and Safety data in 2011
National data sources continuously improved
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Good data on traumatic fatality
Good data in traumatic injuries
Good ‘high level’ data on performance in our priority industries
Better data on hazard exposures
Better data on attitudes and perceptions to work health and safety
Good mesothelioma data
but
 Poor data on health outcomes for long latency occupational
diseases
 Relatively poor data on sub-industries and occupations
 Relatively poor data on workers who are not covered by workers’
compensation
 Poor lead indicator data
 Poor link between effectiveness of specific national actions and
outcomes - what works for whom, where, when and why
More accurate and sophisticated
performance reporting
 Comparison of OHS Arrangements in Australia and New
Zealand
 Notified Fatalities Statistical report
 Comparison of Workers’ Compensation Arrangements in
Australia and New Zealand
 Compendium of Workers’ Compensation Statistics
 Cost of work-related injury and illness
Research in 2011
Research agenda and activity expanded and refined - greater
focus on data to inform potential lead indicators
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Hazard exposure surveillance – focus on those causing disease
Measured exposures studies
Regulatory research
Intervention effectiveness
Surveys on work health and safety motivations, attitudes and skills
Improved national research collaborations (ARC, CRCs)
Emerging issues surveillance
Rehabilitation and return to work
Increased commitment to evaluation but capability still
evolving
 Measuring nationally harmonised regulatory framework and activity
• Currently designing a possible and achievable measurement
framework
A new National Strategy