Workers’ compensation claims data related to COVID-19 now available

Safe Work Australia has published a snapshot of COVID-19 related workers’ compensation claims data to 31 July 2020.

Safework have released a snapshot of COVID-related compensation claims, the snapshot can be downloaded here. The report provides an overview of COVID-19 related workers’ compensation claims data as at 31 July 2020.


Data is provided by claim type, industry, occupation, age, gender and jurisdiction. Key findings show that as at 31 July 2020:


533 workers’ compensation claims related to COVID-19 were lodged in Australia


34% of these claims related to mental health impacts of COVID-19


34% of workers’ compensation claims lodged were from the health care and social assistance industry


17% of workers’ compensation claims lodged were from the public administration and safety industry



the ‘community and personal service workers’ occupation had the highest number of workers’ compensation claims.

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