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• Workplace injury and disease destroys quality of life, social and family activities, affects job prospects and career advancement.
• Every 2-3 minutes someone in Australia is injured seriously enough to lodge a workers compensation claim.
• There are almost 690,000 work-related incidents – including diseases, injuries and fatalities
  – each year. In 2007-08 there were 150 notified work-related fatalities.These official figures underestimate the true scale of the problem.
• The Australian Safety and Compensation Council stated in its March 2009 report Cost of work related death, disease and injury that: “Disease fatality estimates are considered to be a conservative estimate, with studies estimating that as many as 7000 fatalities may occur each year as a result of work-related disease.” This is four times the annual national road toll.
• Injury death and illness comes at an enormous cost to the community. The total economic cost of work-related injuries and illnesses for the 2005-06 financial year was $57.5 billion which was 5.9% of GDP.