AUSTRALIA loses 41,194 work years annually due to work-related injuries, disease and mental health conditions, new research has revealed.
The Monash University team has developed the new 'Working Years Lost' (WYL)metric to measure the national burden of work-based injury, illness and disease resulting in compensation claims.
Published in the Medical Journal of Australia, the study found that male workers made up 61.6% of WYL, while females were 38.4%.
Further, more than half of all workers affected were over 45.
Involved in the study, Prof Alex Collie said, "the impact of some injuries and diseases are more accurately represented by the new metric", see more HERE.
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