jurisdiction. Preliminary data for 2011-12 show 27% of serious claims had compensation paid for 12 or more weeks off work. Over the period 2007-08 to 2010-11 all jurisdictions except Western Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory recorded decreases in incidence rates of long term claims with the largest decrease in the Northern Territory (40%) followed by Victoria (12%) and Queensland (6%). The preliminary data for 2011-12 show that incidence rates of long term claims ranged from 1.7 claims per 1000 employees in the Northern Territory to 4.8 in the Australian Capital Territory. co on Claims per 1000 employees ACT Tas WA SA Old NSW NT Aust Figure 3: Claims involving twelve or more weeks off work: Incidence rates by jurisdiction Claims data were extracted from the National Data Set (NDS) for Compensation-based Statistics. The data presented here are restricted to accepted claims for serious injury and disease. Serious claims include fatalities, claims for permanent disability and claims for conditions that involve one or more weeks of time lost from work. Serious claims do not include those involving journeys to and from work. The 2011-12 data are preliminary and expected to rise. As such they have not been used to determine the percentage change in rates over time. More information on this industry can be found at swa.gov.au. Information on fatalities is extracted from the Traumatic Injury Fatalities database. Annual fatalities reports can be found at swa.gov.au. Source: http://www.safe workaustralia.gov.au/sites/swa/about/publications/pages/f=2010healthandcommunity a) What is one trend that you find interesting in this fact sheet? a) Imagine you are a manager in a community services workplace. How do you think benchmarks such as these would be useful to manage health and safety in your own workplace