Workers' compensation injury frequency rates

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The data previously published as ‘Lost Time Injury Frequency Rates’ (LTIFR) is now published in the Workers' compensation Injury Frequency Rates dashboard. You can find this data using the Claims type ‘Lost time claims’. Please see the Work health and safety reporting page for more information about how to assess and measure your organisation's work health and safety performance.

How to use the WCIFR dashboard

This dashboard provides Worker Compensation Injury Frequency Rates (WCIFRs) by industry, occupation and claims type. WCIFRs may help inform work health and safety (WHS) reporting.  You can use the dashboard to calculate WCIFRs for your organisation for total claims or by claim type (lost time, serious, permanent impairment, and significant time lost claims).

Compare your organisation’s WCIFRs against national benchmarks by entering your organisation’s claims and hours worked data into these dashboard pages:

  • Compare by industry - to see how your organisation’s WCIFR compares to industry benchmarks
  • Compare by occupation - to see how your organisation’s WCIFR  compares to occupation benchmarks. This may be of interest for specific occupations in your organisation with high injury rates or those with higher hazard exposure.

Explore the WCIFR benchmark data by Industry, Occupation, Severity (claims count, cost and time lost), and Injury type (mechanism and nature of injury) on the Explore WCIFR page. To interact with the data:

  • Left click on bars inside the charts to cross filter other charts on the page (hold 'Ctrl' to select more than one bar).
  • Right click on bars within the industry and occupation charts to drill down into data.
  • View the interactive dashboard help video or dashboard user guide.

WHS reporting should draw on multiple sources of information, not WCIFRs alone. Learn more about approaches to reporting on WHS data.

Note: WCIFRs are calculated as the number of claims per million hours worked over a given time-period. These rates are derived from Safe Work Australia's workers' compensation data. Find out more about WCIFRs.
 

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