❓ Hon Kate Doust asked WorkSafe about the number and type of work injury notifications received in 2012-13, and whether failures to report led to prosecutions. WorkSafe reported 2064 notifications, identified failures to report, but no prosecutions resulted.
AnsweredQoN 972Legislative Council
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I refer to WorkSafe for the reporting period 2012-13, and ask: (a) how many notices of work injuries were made to WorkSafe, and what was the injury type; (b) were any failures to report discovered by WorkSafe; (c) if yes to (b), did any of the failures lead to prosecution; and (d) if yes to (c), what were the outcomes of the prosecutions?
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Answered
6 May 2014
Responded by
Minister for Commerce
Response time
47 days
(a) WorkSafe received 2064 notifications of injuries. Some of the injuries were notified to WorkSafe more than once by different parties. WorkSafe's case management system does not provide scope for a report to be extracted detailing the type of injury reported.
(b) Yes.
(c) None of these occasions have resulted in prosecution at this time.
(d) Not applicable.
(b) Yes.
(c) None of these occasions have resulted in prosecution at this time.
(d) Not applicable.
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