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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3778 ..
result of a workplace injury caused by a disease, however, unless the employment substantially contributed to the death of the worker the dependants will not be compensated for the death.
The current national consensus is that compensated fatalities represent the most reliable indicator of the number and extent of work related fatalities. This is the data set used in the Comparative Performance Monitoring Report of Australian and New Zealand Occupational Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation Schemes produced annually by the Workplace Relations Ministers' Council.
Preliminary information shows that during 2002-03, three fatalities at workplaces were recorded. These occurred in the Transport, Construction and Property and Business industry sectors.
One fatality was a truck driver who was killed when his truck overturned on a express-way.
One fatality appears to have resulted from an electrocution.
For one fatality the Coroner found that the death of a cleaner at a supermarket was from natural causes.
This preliminary information will be finalised in the CPM Report to be issued in 2004 after the full analysis of data post December 2003.
(3) How many workplace fatalities occurred during 2002-03 and how does this figure compare to (a) 2001-02 and (b) 2000-01?
Compensated fatalities | |
*Final data to be confirmed in the CPM Report in 2004
(4) How many legal cases relating to workplace safety issues were finalised during 2002-03?
Three workplace safety cases were finalised in the Magistrates Court.(5) What was the outcome of each of the legal cases finalised during 2002-03?
There were two cases under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989.In the first case the defendant was found guilty of one charge relating to the fall from height of a construction worker.
The defendant was fined $1,000.
In the second case the defendant was found guilty on two charges relating to an electric shock and amputation of a worker's fingers whilst using sawmill equipment.
The defendant was fined a total of $2,250.
There was one case under the Gas Safety Act 2000
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