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This 8 page paper discusses the high incidence of work-related injuries and deaths in Australia, and what might be done to stop this epidemic. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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toll that is so high its puzzling. This paper discusses the high incidence of work-related injuries and deaths in Australia, and what might be done to stop this epidemic.
Statistics In Australia, during the span of one year, one in every 12 workers will suffer a work-related injury. Thats 650,000 workers; at least 120,000 of whom
will require "more than five days off work" (Remedies are raising new doubts, 2005). In addition to those who are injured or sick, there are "nearly 3,000 work-related deaths
in Australia each year, [which is] twice the number of deaths each year from motor vehicle accidents" (Remedies raising new doubts, 2005). Of this number, approximately 430 deaths are
due to trauma in the workplace; the other deaths are "linked to work-related diseases, often the result of exposure to hazardous substances many years before" (Remedies are raising new doubts,
2005). As might be expected, this high incidence of deaths, injuries and illnesses is expensive, costing the Australian economy nearly $30 billion per year (Remedies are raising new doubts,
2005). The statistics surrounding this phenomenon are alarming: in the next year, one in 20 workers will "suffer a work-related injury or disease"; "every 2.4 minutes" someone
will be injured badly enough to lodge a workers compensation claim; and in NSW, one worker will be killed every 43 hours (Remedies are raising new doubts, 2005). The
problem has become so acute that "nearly every state and territory government has considered drafting industrial manslaughter laws" (Remedies are raising new doubts, 2005). Whats going on here?
Simple: the Australian workplace is unsafe. One source argues that the deaths, illnesses and injuries are preventable, and depend upon removing hazards from the workplace (Rubenstein, 2002). Rubenstein
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