Accident, injury, compensation and safety data

Assessing compensation data which may influence OHS decisions in a workplace 

One useful step in making decisions about OHS in a particular workplace is to compare the data on work-related injury and disease in that workplace with national, state, province, territory figures for occupations in that workplace and for similar types of industry. This can give an idea of the types of workers most at risk, and the types of occmrences which need to be addressed first. It allows you to benchmark yoiu workplace against other similar ones. For your particular workplace, it is possible to ask your compensation insiuer for a breakdown of injury types, injmy severity, injirry frequency rates, injury duration, and claims costs, and relate these to particular sections or parts of your workplace. 

Sources of data and groups of data can be foimd which will assist in the assessment of failure probability in engineering equipment and systems, and in human control/man-agement systems. 

Many possible sources of data of this type may be available and an in-depth look is not possible here. 

You may be able to obtain mamrfacturer s information on expected risks of breakdown when purchasing eqiripment, and you can certainty find out recommended times for replacement or servicing of parts. Within a compatty, careful examination of maintenance records will give you information. Some electronically-based control systems store data on events which occitr ditring operation so they can be analysed later. 

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