This section contains health and safety statistics for general industries.
Reports
- Worst hazards in Western Australian workplaces: 2012-13 to 2021-22
WorkSafe has identified the worst hazards in Western Australia’s workplaces by examining work-related traumatic injury fatalities and workers’ compensation claims with shared mechanisms of injury and breakdown agency of injury. The mechanism of injury identifies the action, exposure or event that resulted in injury or disease. The breakdown agency of injury identifies the object, substance or circumstance that led to the injury or disease. - State of the Work Environment: Work-related fatalities in Western Australia, 2011-12 to 2020-21
The State of the Work Environment (SOWE) series is produced to promote awareness of workplace health and safety in Western Australia. This report mainly focuses on work-related traumatic injury fatalities occurring in Western Australia in the last decade. - Agricultural industry fatality
Work-related traumatic injury fatality for the agricultural industry using information derived by the Department.
Health and safety snapshots
- Asbestos
Information on asbestos removal and WorkSafe’s activities and strategies covering the number of changes to legislation involving asbestos removal. - Dust strategy 2023-24
WorkSafe’s Dust strategy 2023-24 is driving improvements in the management of hazardous dusts to protect workers from harm. It forms part of Priority Three - Respiratory hazards within the WorkSafe: The way forward strategic plan. This snapshot of the Dust strategy outlines our recent activities and initiatives from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023.