Australia's Respiratory Disease, Hearing Loss Incidence Declining

Safe Work Australia released its Occupational Disease Indicators, 2014 report this month, and it shows encouraging progress in several measures.

  • Jul 14, 2014

Safe Work Australia's new Occupational Disease Indicators, 2014 report contains mostly good news. It showed the rate of workers' compensation claims for noise-induced hearing loss rose from 391 claims per million employees in 2006-07 to 627 in 2009-10 but fell to 540 claims per million employees in 2010-11, the latest year available. Also, the rate of workers' compensation claims for all respiratory diseases fell from 143 per million employees between 2000-01 to 73 in 2010-11, with asbestosis claims significantly down, although asthma claims have remained relatively stable between 2004-05 and 2010-11.

Musculoskeletal disorder claims declined by 31 percent between 2000-01 and 2010-11. In addition, the rate of workers' compensation claims for occupational cancers decreased from a peak of 66 claims per million employees in 2003-04 to a low of 48 in 2008-09 and has remained relatively stable since.

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