An overview of manual handling injury statistics in western Australia

摘要

This paper provides an overview of recent occupational injury and disease statistics from Western Australia, with a particular focus on manual handling injuries. The mechanisms for data collection and the limitations of the data sets arediscussed. Information is presented to demonstrate the trends in injury data over an eight-year period. Breakdowns of estimates of new compensation cases by nature of injury, bodily location and mechanism of injury are discussed. The distribution of eases by age, gender and industry is also described. The implications of these data are discussed.