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Safety recording

This chapter outlines what to record in relation to workplace injury and disease, and how to analyses your data to asses the safety performance of your organisation.

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What is safety recording?

Safety recording is the process of recording work injury and disease in your organisation.
Safety recording under the Australian Standard

There is not one prescribed method for recording safety performance.
What safety data should you record?

According to the Standard, you must record three types of occurrences.
What information should you include when recording safety performance?

There are seven key things you must include in your safety performance records.
Checklist: Data to record for injury and disease occurrences

According to the Standard, you must record the following data for injury and disease occurrences.
How to analyse your records

Records can be used to identify problems and key areas for improvement in health and safety.
3 types of measurement rates

There are three types of measurement rates you can use to identify safety performance.
Reporting safety performance to the board

Data reporting to the board can be broken into four areas.