In Part 1 of this report we describe our attempt to establish a register of work- related fatalities electronically. In Part 2 we consider how New Zealand should proceed for its future work-related fatalities surveillance.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Part 1: Establishing a work-related fatality 'register'

1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
     Figure 1: Agency coverage of the WRFIS dataset
     Figure 2: Cases identified by Agencies as work-related but not in WRFIS dataset
     Table 1: Coverage of WRFIS by Industry (ANZSIC96)
     Table 2: Agency coverage of WRFIS by Occupation (NZSCO 1995)
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion

Part 2. Future surveillance of work-related fatalities

1. Introduction
2. United States of America

2.1 US. National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system
     2.1.1 Death Certificates
     2.1.2 Occupation, Industry and Cause of Death Coding
     2.1.3 Denominator Data
2.2 US National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)
     2.2.1 Verification
     2.2.2 Elements in the dataset
     2.2.3 Evaluation of system

3. Observations of the USA systems
4. Australia
5. Coroners and the New Zealand situation

Recommendations
References
Acknowledgments

Appendix 1