This report describes key results from the Work Related Fatal Injury Study (WRFIS #2), a review of traumatic work-related fatalities that occurred in New Zealand 1985 - 1994.

Table of Contents

LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
AIMS
METHOD
RESULTS
CONCLUSIONS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 AIMS
     1.1.1 Primary aims
     1.1.2 Secondary aims

2. METHOD

2.1 CASE DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION
2.2 DATA SOURCES FOR IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL WORK-RELATED DEATHS
2.3 DATA COLLECTION
2.4 ADDITIONAL METHODS OF CASE ASCERTAINMENT
2.5 DATA CODING
2.6 RELIABILITY
2.7 ANALYSIS
2.8 DENOMINATORS
2.9 RATES

3. RESULTS

3.1 CASE ASCERTAINMENT
3.2 CASE CLASSIFICATION
3.3 WORK-RELATED FATAL INJURIES OF WORKERS 1985 - 1994
     3.3.1 Overall results
     3.3.2 Gender
     3.3.3 Age
     3.3.4 Employment status
     3.3.5 Industry
     3.3.6 Occupation
     3.3.7 Deaths involving occupational homicide
3.4 COMPARISON OF WORK-RELATED FATAL INJURIES 1985 - 1994 (WRFIS) WITH THOSE FOR 1975 - 1984 (CRYER AND FLEMING 1987)
     3.4.1 Introduction
     3.4.2 Overall results
     3.4.3 Employment status
     3.4.4 Industry
     3.4.5 Occupation
     3.4.6 Age and gender
3.5 BYSTANDER DEATHS
     3.5.1 Introduction
     3.5.2 Results
3.5 ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT REPOSITORY OF INFORMATION ABOUT WORK-RELATED FATAL INJURIES 1985 - 1994
3.6 TRAUMATIC WORK-RELATED DEATH AMONG MAORI

4. GENERAL DISCUSSION

5. REFERENCES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS