Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that workers compensation claims are falling, News Mail reports. Sales people are the top category to have reduced claims in the Central QLD Bay region, with a 33 per cent drop in 2011-2013. Managers reduced their claim rate over the same period by 28 per cent, while community and personal service workers’ claims dropped by 13 per cent. “Overall, the rate of injury is a bit over four per cent and figures confirm that work-related injury rates have continued to fall,” said ABS labour force director Stephen Collett. “We’ve seen a fall of just over two percentage points – it was 6.4 per cent in 2005-06 and it’s now down to 4.3 per cent.”
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