Papers to note: Comparative Performance Monitoring report on workers
19/02/2008
The minister for employment and workplace relations yesterday�released the Comparative Performance Monitoring report on Australiaâs occupational health and safety (OHS) and workersâ compensation outcomes in 2005-06.
Among the key findings, the report shows that Australian workersâ compensation schemes expended more than $5.7 billion, of which around half (52 per cent) was paid direct to injured workers in compensation for their injury or illness.�Eighty per cent of injured workers successfully returned to work within eight to 10 months of sustaining their injury.
19 February 2008
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