Safety for our employees
Safety Performance
Reporting on Workplace Health and Safety demonstrates how safety is managed and where improvements are needed. Whole-of-department and branch safety reports are developed monthly and every six months the Safety and Wellbeing Improvement Plan report for the department and branches is released.
The statistical overview indicates that the department is expecting a significant reduction in the severity of injuries incurred by employees, with lost working days decreasing from 1362 in 2018–19 to 575 in 2019–20 (a decrease of 60%).
The data below is subject to change in accordance with decisions made by WorkCover Queensland regarding the determination of compensable claims. This may result in variations to historical data which have previously been published.
Figure 6: Snapshot of our performance over the years
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2010–2011 |
2011–2012 |
2012–2013 |
2013–2014 |
2014–2015 |
2015–2016 |
2016–2017 |
2017–2018 |
2018–2019 |
2019–2020 |
|
LTIs |
117 |
87 |
82 |
73 |
75 |
92 |
88 |
87 |
90 |
64 |
|
LTIFR |
8.1 |
5.9 |
6.7 |
6.5 |
6.6 |
8.0 |
7.6 |
7.2 |
7.9 |
5.5 |
|
Severity Rate |
99 |
63 |
62 |
129 |
108.7 |
91 |
90.5 |
90.3 |
119.6 |
49.5 |
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Days Lost |
1431 |
919 |
757 |
1442 |
1234 |
1044 |
1049 |
1088 |
1362 |
575 |
Data sourced from the department’s WHS Incident/Injury Management System (Safeware) and from WorkCover Queensland.
Data are subject to change in accordance with decisions made by WorkCover Queensland regarding the determination of compensable claims. This may result in variations to
historical data which have previously been published.
Lost Time Injury (LTI) is an injury that results in at least one full shift being lost at some time after the shift during which the injury occurred.
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) is the number of lost time injuries per million hours worked.
Days Lost is the number of full work shifts lost for a lost time injury.
Severity Rate is the number of days lost per million hours worked.
