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6. Numbers of injuries resulting in five days incapacity by mechanism of incident (CIS report)

For: Employers and managers

This report is part of our Customer Information System (CIS).


About the report

  • Description: This report displays data on the number of claims to have their 5th day of incapacity determined in the chosen reporting period and is then broken down by Mechanism of Incident. This report is presented as a table, with data grouped by month.
  • Access level required: Management level access.
  • Export options: .pdf and .rtf
  • Benefits: These measures provide a proxy of the numbers of work-related injuries occurring in the period and accumulating the 5th day's incapacity. This forms the base data for the P2 SRCC indicators and needs to be supplemented and calculated using the additional average number of FTE employee data element available in house.
  • Indicators displayed are: Incidence of injuries resulting in 5 days incapacity (for each MOI) = (Number of claims in which the 5th of incapacity was determined (for each MOI) divided by the average number of FTE employees who worked in the period) * 1000
  • Parameters: Number of claims in which the 5th of incapacity was determined in the period resulting from the major Mechanism of Incident groups.

Fields in the report

Table 1: Description of the fields in the Numbers of injuries resulting in five days incapacity by mechanism of incident report
FieldsDescription
Month/year The month and year that other fields within report relate to.
Falls, trips and slips The major group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Hitting objects with body The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Being hit by moving objects The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Sound and pressure The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Body stressing The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Heat, elec + other enviro fact The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Chemicals and other substances The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Biological factors The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Mental stress The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Other and unspecified The group used in the Type of Occurrence Classification System (TOOCS) to differentiate how claimants have been injured.
Total The sum of previous fields on the report.
Page last reviewed: 03 June 2022

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Date printed 26 Apr 2024

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