Documents and information relating to:

• OHS in the freight, logistics and heavy haulage industries
• OHS in the warehousing and retail distribution industries
• the role of owner driver in the above industries, and
• the role of ‘chain or responsibility’ from consignors to drivers in OHS in the above industries.

Safe Work Australia Social Media Guidelines – Communications and Publishing (July 2013)

Safe Work Australia Social Media Policy and Guidelines (10 January 2014)

SWA Social Media – Community Standards (undated)

A copy of:

• SWMS and WHS Management Plans research report completed by the National Research Centre for OHS Regulation at the Australian National University (ANU)
• Any drafts of the report
• The other 6-7 research reports Safe Work Australia commissioned the ANU to undertake
• Internal documentation or formal communications concerning what the regulator is proposing to do in response to the research findings.

Information, including communications, showing Safe Work Australia’s internal consideration and/or deliberation about the final Workplace Safety Futures Report (final report).

Information about any changes made to the final report from draft reports following communications from Safe Work Australia.

Minutes of Safe Work Australia executive meetings and sub-committee meetings of SIG-Workers Compensation and SIG-WHS that occurred between January 2011 and December 2014, that include subject matters of Upper Big Branch (USA) mine explosion, coal workers pneumoconiosis, black lung, silicosis, coal dust and/or NIOSH.

Any correspondence (including reports and safety alerts/notices) and communications by Safe Work Australia or its members with world collaboration partners ILO, WHO and any others, that include the subject matters set out above.

Safe Work Australia considerations and any associated documentation about providing financial support for the “Breathe Freely” programme (the program) proposed by the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH), and

File notes or minutes of meetings and teleconferences with the AIOH about the program including on

• 21 February 2019; and
• 6 March 2019.

For the building and construction industry:

• The number of improvement, prohibition and penalty notices issued as well as prosecution (which may or may not result in an undertaking) split into states and breaches (e.g. license related, working environment, behaviour, knowledge) for the last 3 years available [Category 1]
• Total fines issued breakdown by states and breaches for the last 3 years available [Category 2]
• (if available) cost of enforcing safework for each state including cost for audits, negotiation and prosecution [Category 3]
• The number of injuries and fatalities by each state and occupation (if there’s data later than 2012-13) [Category 4]

Schedule of documents released under FOI request: 19-005.

Safe Work Australia does not possess documents in relation to Categories 1-3.

However, Safe Work Australia does collect some aggregated data that relates to Categories 1-2. However, this is not available at the industry level. The data is published in the Comparative Performance Monitoring Report: Part 2 - Work Health and Safety Compliance and Enforcement Activities (20th Edition, December 2018), which compares the number of workplace interventions, notices and legal proceedings across Australia and New Zealand.

Statistics from 2000–01 to 2016–17 for each state or territory:

1. that made up the Australian workers' compensation number of serious claims as noted in Table 15 [of Safe Work Australia’s Australian Workers’ Compensation Statistics 2016-17].

2. for the number of Employees covered for workers' compensation year of lodgement.

Spreadsheet providing the State and Territory/Jurisdiction level data in line with the national data included in Table 15 of the Australian Workers' Compensation Statistics 2016-17 report. The spreadsheet includes a separate tab/table for each jurisdiction as well as accompanying explanatory notes.

FOI 19-009 – State and territory workers' compensation statistics.

1a. Accepted workers’ compensation claims data from the National Data Set for Compensation-Based Statistics (NDS) for meat workers from 2010/11 to 2018/19:

• The number of claims per year;
• The number of serious claims per year (an incapacity that results in total absence from work of one working week or more);
• The median time lost from work for serious claims per year (or the range if median is not available); and 
• The median compensation paid for serious claims per year (or the range if median is not available).

1b. A breakdown (where possible) of the 2018/19 accepted compensation claims data from the NDS for meat workers into:

• Age groups;
• Occupations (at least to Major Groups in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations);
• Details of injuries and diseases, as coded using the Type of Occurrence Classification System. Specifically, the: nature of injury or disease; bodily location of injury or disease; and the mechanisms of injury or disease.

2. The number of meat worker fatalities per year from 2003 to 2019, from Safe Work Australia’s Work-Related Traumatic Injury Fatalities database. Please include a breakdown (where possible) of the fatalities into:

• Ages or age group;
• Occupations (at least to Major Groups in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations);
• Location of fatality (State or Territory); and
• Mechanism of incident (the overall action, exposure or event that describes the circumstances that resulted in a fatality, as per Table 1.6 in the 2018 fatalities data set download).

For each calendar year from 2016 to 2019, the first page that contains the completion date of Safe Work Australia’s first finalised:

Fraud risk assessment for the purposes of s 10(a) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014; and

Fraud/compliance audit implemented for the purposes of s 10(b) and (d) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1. Safework Australia's submission document to the AWEI scheme;
2. Data collated by the Safework Australia for provision to Pride in Diversity and AWEI scheme;
3. Results of AWEI employee survey conducted by Safework Australia on Safework  Australia employees;
4. Invoices paid to ACON and Pride in Diversity.

1. Safework Australia's submission document to the AWEI scheme;
2. Data collated by the Safework Australia for provision to Pride in Diversity and AWEI scheme;
3. Results of AWEI employee survey conducted by Safework Australia on Safework  Australia employees;
4. Invoices paid to ACON and Pride in Diversity.

1. Any final request for tender, request for quote or request for information documents (however described) issued by Safe Work Australia which led to the engagement of either or both of the independent experts and the peer reviewer. 
2. Copies of any documents with which the independent experts were briefed, including any briefing correspondence or memoranda and any other documents, reports, data or similar (however described) provided to them by Safe Work Australia. 
3. Copies of any documents with which the peer reviewer was briefed, including any briefing correspondence or memoranda and any other documents, data or similar (however described) provided to them by Safe Work Australia. 
4. To the extent not caught by categories 2 or 3 above, documents specifying any methodologies or practices to be applied by the independent and/or the peer reviewer in relation to the review of the WES as it relates to SMF. 
5. Any recommendations, memoranda or similar (however described) provided to Safe Work Australia by either or both of the independent and/or the peer reviewer. 6. The WES and guidance notes current as at the date of this request.

1. The tender responses (however described) submitted to Safe Work Australia by either or both of the independent experts and/or the peer reviewer.  We do not require any pricing information to be included and is content for this material to be redacted
2. Any draft reports, recommendations, memoranda or similar (however described) provided to Safe Work Australia by either or both of the independent experts and/or the peer reviewer.
3. Any correspondence between Safe Work Australia and either or both of the independent experts and the peer reviewer, and any notes, minutes or other record of any meetings between the staff or members of Safe Work Australia and either or both of the independent experts and/or peer reviewer, in relation to the review of the WES as it relates to SMF.
4. Any documents or correspondence between the staff of Safe Work Australia and Safe Work Australia's members, or between Safe Work Australia and any Federal, State or Territory Ministers, concerning:
   a.    the review of the WES as it relates to SMF; and/or
   b.    the draft or final reports, recommendations, memoranda or similar (however described) provided to Safe Work Australia by either or both of the independent experts and/or the peer reviewer.

• Any studies or reports that show Silica related diseases by profession (Stone Mason, Concreter etc)
• Any studies or reports that show Silica related diseases by age groups
• Any studies or reports that show Silica related diseases by industry
• Any studies or reports that show Silica related diseases by location (factory vs construction site)
• Any studies or reports that show Silica related diseases by state
• Any studies or reports that show Silica exposure by profession (Stone Mason, Concreter etc)
• Any studies or reports that show Silica exposure by industry