Overview of the Seacare Scheme 2002–03 — selected statistics

• There are 23 employers covered by the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 (Seafarers Act), excluding employers which currently have a section 20A exemption for all seafarers (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• There are 30 employers covered by the Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act 1993 (OHS(MI) Act) (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• Four insurance companies wrote seafarer workers' compensation business in 2002–03. In addition, some employers support their seafarer workers' compensation insurance with protection and indemnity association (P&I Club) packages (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• There are 3 355 employees, including casual and part time employees, covered under the Seafarers Act (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• There are 3 173 full time equivalent employees covered under the OHS(MI) Act (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• These employees are engaged on 138 ships covered by the Seafarers Act — 57 (41%) in the blue water (merchant) sector and 81 (59%) in the offshore sector (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• There are approximately 275 ships covered by the OHS(MI) Act (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• The Seacare Authority injury frequency rate for 2002–03 (the benchmark injury frequency rate, being the number of accepted claims (injuries) per million hours worked, based on 24 hours per day) for seafarers is 17.5 (Source: Seacare Authority)
   
• There were no work-related fatalities in the Seacare scheme over 2002–03, bringing the fatality free period in the Seacare scheme to eight years (Source: Australian Maritime Industry Compensation Agency Ltd (AMICA)
   
• There were 78 accidents and dangerous occurrences (incidents) of which 65 were accidents and 13 were dangerous occurrences reported to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) over the year (Source: AMSA)
   
• There were 163 workers' compensation claims reported to AMICA over the year, of which 145 were accepted by employers at the data extraction date (14 July 2003) (Source: AMICA)
   
• The cost of claims, or payments made to and on behalf of employees, in relation to claims lodged during the year is $2.01 million (Source: AMICA)
   
• The workers' compensation premium pool is approximately $9.73 million in 2001–02 (Source: Seacare scheme insurers/Taylor Fry Pty Ltd)
   
• The premium pool is based on a wages/salary pool of approximately $273.3 million in 2001-02 (Source: Seacare scheme insurers/Taylor Fry Pty Ltd)
   
• The average unadjusted earned premium rate across the industry is 3.56%(Source: Seacare scheme insurers/Taylor Fry Pty Ltd)
   
• 173 seafarers successfully completed a Seacare Authority accredited OHS representatives training course (Source: Accredited training providers/Seacare Authority)
   
• The Seacare scheme incidence of injury rate of 24.1 for 2001–02 (injuries (excluding disease claims and journey claims) of one week or more compensated per 1000 employees) is for the first time lower than several other high risk industries — transport and storage (28), mining (25.1) and construction (25.1). (Source: 5th National Comparative Performance Monitoring Report)

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