Our annual Health and Safety Performance Report is an important long-term initiative of the Australian chemistry industry. It has provided detailed insights into the industry’s health and safety performance since 2000.
The Report plays a central role in improving health and safety performance for the sector, providing insights to help businesses benchmark and identify areas for future improvement.
It is also important in promoting the principles of health and safety to industry value chain partners, external stakeholders and the broader community, and allows the industry to share examples of best practice and encourage others to act.
We are proud to present the results of the 2023 Health and Safety Performance Report.
HIghlights include:
- Zero fatalities for 11 years
- Our worker injury rate is 1.71 per cent, well under the target of 3.5 per cent.
- This includes Mental Health injuries, which are reported in our worker injury rates from 2023.
- The 5-year rolling average Lost Time Injury (LTI) rate has increased, suggesting a lag in historical data.
- In real-time analysis, LTIs have decreased from 2022.
- Manual handling injuries are decreasing but remain a leading injury type for our industry.
Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy
In 2023, Chemistry Australia members achieved some excellent results and remains one of the safest groups in Australia.
The report commences a new decade of alignment with Safe Work Australia’s Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy, which focusses on reducing worker fatalities, injuries and illness.
Over the next 10 years, our approach will target specific injuries and key areas of interest:
- Zero fatalities
- Equal to or less than 3.5 per cent injury rate
- A reduction in the rate of serious injuries
Chemistry Australia will also measure and report mental health injury rates to better understand our performance in this critical area, while monitoring areas that require closer examination; Workdays Lost Per Employee (WDLPE), injuries related to age, and physical injuries.
The new strategy provides members with the opportunity to reflect anew on strategies to reduce the frequency of injuries, particularly in the most persistent areas for our sector.
We congratulate members on their outstanding results and continued leadership and commitment to the health of workers, communities and the environment.
Additional resources for participants
Every company that participates in the Health and Safety Performance Report receives a confidential Benchmarking Report.
This valuable tool allows members to benchmark their own results against peers, promote internal discussion, gain new insights and generate ideas to drive further improvements in their workplace.
