D Cliff

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The role of Government in monitoring OHS
performance

• Presented by
• D Cliff

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Catalysts

• MICI projects
• QRC project elimination of fatalities and
  serious injuries
• MCA annual Health and Safety Report
• Review of NRM Inspectorate
• (Verna Blewett)

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Extensive literature on PPI

• including
• 1994 WORKSAFE workshop
• 1999 NOSHC Construction Industry
• ANU OHR Reg working papers
• NSW MC 1998
• MCA 2001
• MINEX

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Background

• Currently
• Review of NSW Mine Safety
• Review of Qld Mines Inspectorate
• Review of Mine Safety in WA outcomes from BHPB
  inquiry
• Renewed push for prescriptive regulations

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QLD NRM

• Regulations require the reporting of
• Individual Fatalities
• Individual Lost Time injuries (ICAM)
• Individual High Potential Incidents (ICAM)
• Summary reports on Disabling injuries
• Periodic Medicals ( Coal only)

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QLD NRM annual report

• 70 page glossy report
• Fatalities rates
• Permanent Incapacity injuries
• LTIs, LTIFR, Severity Rates, Duration rates
• Disabling injuries, rates
• High Potential incidents
• LTI by shift roster cycle
• LTI by occurrence within shift roster

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QLD NRM annual report

• Health data
• No. of health assessments (coal)
• Sickness, absenteeism and other lost time
  statistics (coal)
• Workers compensation data by sector by category

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QLD NRM annual report

• Injuries
• By body part injured
• Nature of injury
• Mechanism of injury
• Classification of injury
• Breakdown agency
• ICAM causal factors

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QLD NRM report

• For each sector - by mine (named)
• No. of injuries
• Days lost
• LTIFR
• Severity Rate
• Incidence rate
• Duration rate
• Disabling injuries
• HPI
• Medical treatments (Voluntary)

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Industry perspective

• Massive paper filling out exercise
• reporting appears to be a blame exercise in part
• Waste of limited time diversion of resources
• Poor quality data no QA
• Irrelevant to industry have own systems
• Provides misleading information

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Conclusions
NRM report OH and S performance Required by
Minister Limit reactive data to sectoral
analysis What ever data are collected need to be
used to improve OH and S Improve QA on existing
proactive (?) data
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What is the purpose of Government annual (OH) and
S report/how should regulation based data be
reported?What information should be used?
Two Questions
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What to measure?

• Difficulties with any target
• penalties for non achievement encourages
  nonconformance/hiding
• going through the motions to meet targets.
• Does it relate to performance or just busyness?