For completeness, WorkSafe Western Australia includes in its statistics those work-related fatalities covered by the Mines Safety and Inspection Act 1994 under the jurisdiction of the Department of Minerals and Energy. Decisions on whether or not a particular mining fatality is recorded are made by the Department of Minerals and Energy, not WorkSafe Western Australia. In this paper it includes activities undertaken for pay, profit, payment in kind or as a livelihood, including unpaid work in a family business, including on a farm or in fishing. Fatalities related to activities not classified as work are not recorded by WorkSafe Western Australia unless there is also a connection with work. Description Traumatic fatalities to persons who work for pay, profit, payment in kind or as a livelihood, in a job or business or on a farm, and persons who work without pay in a family business including farms.
Guidelines Includes on-duty employers, employees and self employed persons.
See Category 2 for the treatment of motor vehicle accidents on public roads. Exclusions Commonwealth Government employees and members of the armed forces. Rationale Inclusions cover those fatalities that are clearly work related. Exclusions are those employers, employees and self employed persons not covered by the OSH Act and fall outside the jurisdiction of WorkSafe Western Australia and the Western Australian Government. The department has no means of requiring these fatalities to be reported to WorkSafe Western Australia for recording purposes.