AS 1885.1-1990

1 - AS 1885.1-1990 WORKPLACE INJURY AND DISEASE RECORDING STANDARD
4 - PREFACE
5 - CONTENTS
6 - 1. INTRODUCTION
7 - 2. PURPOSE AND USE OF THE WORKPLACE RECORDING STANDARD
8 - 3. CONCEPTS, SCOPE AND DEFINITION OF TERMS
9 - 4. SUMMARY OF DATA ITEMS
11 - 5. DATA ITEMS
11 - PART I
11 - A Employer name
11 - B Industry of the employer
11 - C Employer location
11 - D Recording unit
11 - E Occupational health and safety committee
12 - F Number of employees
12 - G Number of hours worked
13 - PART II
13 - Personal characteristics
13 - Basis of employment
14 - Job characteristics
14 - Occurrence details
18 - Outcome of injury or disease
19 - PART III
19 - Personal characteristics
19 - Basis of employment
19 - Job characteristics
20 - Outcome of the injury or disease
21 - 6. INTERPRETING AND ANALYZING THE RECORDED INFORMATION
23 - APPENDIX A - SAMPLE WORKPLACE INJURY AND DISEASE RECORDING FORM
27 - APPENDIX B - AUSTRALIAN STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION DIVISIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS
29 - APPENDIX C - AUSTRALIAN STANDARD CLASSIFICATION OF OCCUPATIONS, MAJOR AND MINOR GROUP STRUCTURE

Deals with the recording of workplace injury and disease, and is intended for use by both large and small organizations. It includes definitions as well as an explanation of the data items which are required to be recorded. A section dealing with interpretation and analysis of the recorded information is included. These measures include incidence rate, frequency rate, average time lost rate, as well as time series analysis and cross tabulations.

All occurrences that are reported and result in a 'lost-time' or 'no lost-time' workplace injury or disease (as defined below) should be recorded.

AS 1885.1 first published in part as AS CZ6-1952.
Second edition 1966.
Revised and redesignated AS 1885-1976.
Revised and redesignated as Joint Standard AS 1885.1 1990/NS 002-1990.