8.3 Occupational health and safety record keeping
OH&S data reporting and record keeping can be conducted to ensure patterns of injury and disease in the organisation can be analysed, reviewed and improved. As part of a national strategy the Australian Government has established a data management regime that encourages industries, sectors and enterprises to standardise their OH&S data reporting. The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission ( http://www.nohsc.gov.au/OHSInformation/NOHSCPublications/ ) establishes reports and national benchmarks for specific industry areas and occupational injury and disease types.
Activity 4
Use The National Occupational Health and Safety Commission OHS practical solutions database tool . Go through the steps of how a database may be set up and key data interrogated to produce useful reports on OH&S occupational accidents and diseases. The database can be found at:
http://www.nohsc.gov.au/OHSInformation/Databases/OHSSolution
s/ohssolutions.htm
- How could your organisation or one with which you are familiar capture data on OH&S and report it to best assist managers to improve OH&S systems?
- Does this organisation have the capacity to capture this data?
- What is the cost of NOT capturing OH&S data and seeking to reduce occupational accidents and diseases?
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