Certificate IV in Frontline Management National Data Set for Compensation-based Statistics (NDS Classification System) This information is published

d as the Compendium of Workers Compensation Statistics as follows: Reference: http://safeworkaustralia.gov.au/AboutSafeWorkAustralia/WhatWeDo/Statistics/Pag es/DataSetForStatistics.aspx Note that this website and information was correct at time of publication. The National Data Set for Compensation-based Statistics (NDS) lists a standard set of data items, concepts and definitions for inclusion in workers compensation systems operating in Australia. The NDS has been implemented in workers compensation-based collections administered by state, territory and Australian government agencies to enable the production of national and nationally comparable workers compensation-based data. The National Data Set for Compensation-based Statistics (NDS) recommends a standard set of data items, concepts and definitions for inclusion in workers compensation systems operating in Australia. The primary purpose of the NDS is to enable the production of national and nationally comparable workers compensation-based data. These data provide an important indicator of the nature and extent of the work health and safety problem in Australia. In addition, such information is needed to identify current and emerging work health and safety issues. The NDS is supported by several classification systems including the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC), the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) and the NOHSC Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS). TOOCS is central to the NDS. It consists of hierarchical classifications for nature, bodily location, mechanism, breakdown agency and agency of injury or disease. Analysis of these data items allows a determination of some of the antecedents and consequences of an injury or disease event. The first edition of the NDS (NDS1) was published in April 1987. The first data produced under this system relate to the 1991-92 reference period. These data were used to create a national workers compensation statistics database. This database is maintained by Safe Work Australia and updated

annually following provision of the latest available information from the jurisdictions. Information from jurisdictions also includes revised data for previous years, which are used to update the database. Two reviews of the NDS have since been completed. A review of NDS1, which addressed the scope, definitional and classificatory issues that had arisen over the five years since its implementation, was completed in 1999 and a second edition, NDS2 was published in May of that year. The first year of reporting against NDS2 was the 2000-01 reference period. Since 1998, NDS data have been used to calculate the work health and safety indicators in the Comparative Performance Monitoring (CPM) Report. In 1999 the Workplace Relations Ministers Council (WRMC) extended the data collection role of NOHSC to include all data required to calculate the full range of CPM indicators. Against this background, the NDS was reviewed again to assess how these additional data items could best be integrated within the existing NDS. The outcome of this review, the third edition of the NDS, NDS3 has now been published and includes changes to the parameters of NDS2 and information on both work health and safety and workers compensation scheme management. NDS3 becomes effective from 1 July 2005. Through the current version of the NDS, Australia has available to it a workers compensation database covering the more serious compensated work-related injury and disease cases. With some exceptions, data have been consistently coded to agreed standard classifications with respect to industry of employer, occupation of employee, and the type and circumstance of the injury or disease (that is, nature, bodily location, mechanism, breakdown agency and agency of injury or disease). Information is also available on the age and gender of the injured worker and costs and working days lost in respect of new cases reported each year. NDS-based data are used to produce a number of regular and ad hoc statistical reports, including the annual Compendium of Workers Compensation Statistics, Australia, which present the data as indicators of Australias work health and safety experience and performance. NDS-based data also form the basis of the NOHSC Online Statistics Interactive Database of National Workers Compensation Statistics (NOSI and NOSI2). Users can interrogate NOSI specifying their statistical requirements to generate tables and graphs according to their specifications. Current NDS-based statistics do not cover all occurrences of occupational injury and disease for the following reasons: Temporary disability occupational injuries and diseases that result in absences from work of less than one working week are not always claimed as workers compensation; Occupational injuries and diseases occurring on a journey to or from work (commuting claims) are not covered by all State and Territory workers compensation schemes;

While the majority of employees are covered for workers compensation under general Commonwealth, State and Territory workers compensation legislation, some specific groups of workers are covered under separate legislation. Every effort has been made to compile data from all groups of employees but it is known that currently, claims lodged by police in Western Australia and military personnel within the Defence Forces are excluded; Most occupational injuries to the self-employed are excluded because such workers generally are not covered for workers compensation; Not all cases of occupational disease are reported in workers compensation statistics. This is because many diseases result from long-term exposure to agents or have a long latency period, making the link between the occupational disease and work more difficult to identify; and Other cases not claimed as workers compensation or not acknowledged as being work-related are excluded. More information can be obtained from the SafeworkAustralia.gov.au website. Intellitrain offers courses in Certificate IV Frontline Management for Coordinators, Leading Hand, Supervisors and Team Leaders.