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Health and Safety Statistics

The Department of Labour's latest statistics on health and safety notifications. Here you'll find updated information on workplace fatalities and serious harm incidents notified to the Department of Labour, and prosecutions.

Key annual statistics for 2011

  • 41 workers killed at work
  • 6,087 serious harm notifications

Workplace fatalities 2011 year to date

State of Workplace Health and Safety report

On 2 June 2011 the Minister of Labour released the first of what will be an annual snapshot of key health and safety statistics, which will be used to monitor progress towards the Workplace Health and Safety's vision of "healthy people in safe and productive workplaces". Read more here.

Other websites that hold statistics relating to workplace fatalities and accidents: