Health and community services

This industry employs 19,250 or 15.3% of all working Territorians¹

The main areas of employment are:

• Aged care
• General practice medical
• Specialist medical
• Pathology
• Optometry
• Ambulance
• Community health
• Physiotherapy
• Chiropractic
• Residential care
• Non-residential care

In 2019–20, workers compensation payments totalled $4.159m² through 276 claims, and resulted in 874 weeks³ of lost work.

The main mechanism of injury for serious injury claims:

• Being hit by moving object
• Body stressing
• Falls, slips and trips of a person

Since 2016 one person has died in a work-related incident:

1. Vehicle incident

¹Source: Department of Treasury and Finance; ABS, Labour Force, Australia, Detailed Quarterly, Cat. No. 6291.0.55.003.

²Benefit costs reflected are a snap shot at time of publishing.

³Maximum weekly hours of work in accordance with Fair Work - 38 hours per week.