Beta Occupational Hazards Dataset

The Beta Occupational Hazards Dataset is experimental data about the nature of work undertaken in different occupations, and explores the relative exposure of jobs to different types of hazards. 

The Beta Occupational Hazards Dataset (BOHD) contains selected data about workplace hazards and risks, including the ‘work context’ of occupations. Part of this includes information on how often workers in occupations are exposed to, or involve doing, things which may result in injury or illness.

Safe Work Australia constructed this dataset by mapping selected fields from the United States’ O*NET database onto the Australian occupational classification (ANZSCO), combining this with Safe Work Australia’s workers’ compensation claims data and ABS employment levels for each occupation to reflect the composition of the Australian labour market. 

The BOHD can be used to supplement a robust risk management process. However the data, and results of any analysis using the BOHD, should be interpreted with caution, as it is not a definitive source on workplace exposures. 

On this page, you can find:

  • links to an analysis report presenting key findings and insights from the data,
  • interactive dashboards enabling you to explore the data, and
  • a downloadable data file containing the dataset in full.

We welcome your feedback on this work. If you have comments on how we can improve the data, please contact evidence@swa.gov.au.

Read the report
Explore data by hazard
Explore data by occupation
Build your own chart
Download the data
Field Input
Temporal coverage from

O*NET 27.2 - released February 2023

ABS Labour Force data - 4 quarter average for 2022

NDS Claims data - 2021-22
Data last updated 2023
Data limitations

There is no data for some ANZSCO occupations, because around 10% have no sufficiently matching O*NET occupation. The excluded occupations are listed in the ‘Exclusions’ tab of the Beta Occupational Hazards Dataset file which accompanies this report. Please consider these exclusions when interpreting data in this report. 

Even for ANZSCO occupations that have an O*NET match, the match is not always perfect (54% of occupations only have an ‘acceptable’ match’, while 35% have a ‘good match’). 

Some O*NET data are several years old (some occupations were assessed as part of the rolling survey program as far back as 2006).
Publicly available data

Data on this website are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence and may be freely used.

Additional, unpublished data may be available on request.
Author Safe Work Australia

Metadata
Field Input
Temporal coverage from

O*NET 27.2 - released February 2023

ABS Labour Force data - 4 quarter average for 2022

NDS Claims data - 2021-22
Data last updated 2023
Data limitations

There is no data for some ANZSCO occupations, because around 10% have no sufficiently matching O*NET occupation. The excluded occupations are listed in the ‘Exclusions’ tab of the Beta Occupational Hazards Dataset file which accompanies this report. Please consider these exclusions when interpreting data in this report. 

Even for ANZSCO occupations that have an O*NET match, the match is not always perfect (54% of occupations only have an ‘acceptable’ match’, while 35% have a ‘good match’). 

Some O*NET data are several years old (some occupations were assessed as part of the rolling survey program as far back as 2006).
Publicly available data

Data on this website are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence and may be freely used.

Additional, unpublished data may be available on request.
Author Safe Work Australia