ABSTRACT This review paper contributes to literature on the changing nature of work and its implications for regulating work health and safety (WHS). The paper aims to examine how Australian WHS agencies can enhance their evidence base for setting priorities, in the context of trends in business size and structure, industry and work, unionisation, work arrangements and worker attributes. The paper maps key trends and incorporates these in a conceptual framework for appraising data and information sources for priority setting, as identified through searches of literature databases and websites of WHS agencies. With reference to this conceptual framework, the paper examines a range of regulator, compensation, coronial, health and labour datasets. Principal findings are: the greater strength of information about traumatic deaths, injuries and their causes compared with information about slower onset diseases and conditions; the limited basis for differentiating business WHS performance and worker experiences by key business and workforce trends; under-representation of vulnerable workers’ experiences; and the retrospective focus of many sources. The paper concludes that to enhance their evidence base, WHS agencies will need to build analytical expertise and/or links with research bodies and carefully select, extend and combine sources.

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在不断变化的工作环境中确定WHS优先重点的证据基础：评估改进的来源和机会

摘要这篇综述文章为有关工作性质的变化及其对规范工作健康与安全（WHS）的影响的文献做出了贡献。本文旨在研究澳大利亚WHS机构如何根据企业规模和结构，行业与工作，工会，工作安排和工人属性的趋势来增强其确定优先重点的证据基础。该文件描绘了主要趋势，并将其纳入一个概念框架中，以评估数据和信息来源以进行优先重点确定，通过搜索文献数据库和WHS机构网站确定了这一趋势。参照这个概念框架，本文研究了一系列的调节器，补偿，冠状动脉，健康和劳动数据集。主要发现是：关于创伤性死亡的信息更强大，将伤害及其原因与慢速疾病和状况的信息进行比较；根据主要业务和员工趋势区分业务WHS绩效和员工经验的基础有限；弱势工人经验的代表性不足；以及许多资料的回顾重点。本文的结论是，为了增强其证据基础，WHS机构将需要建立分析专业知识和/或与研究机构的联系，并仔细选择，扩展和组合资源。