Manufacturing

The Northern Territory has a small manufacturing industry employing approximately 5% of the total Northern Territory workforce.

The Manufacturing Industry under the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) has an extensive list of associated sectors. The following are some of the sectors relevant to the Northern Territory:

Meat and Meat Product Manufacturing
(e.g. butchering, meat packing)
Bakery Product Manufacturing
(e.g. baking, cake making)
Other Food Manufacturing
(e.g. fish cleaning and filleting)
Clothing Manufacturing
Printing and Services to Printing
(e.g. newspaper printing, graphic design)
Plastic Product Manufacturing
(e.g. fibreglass manufacturing)
Structural Metal Product Manufacturing (e.g. security screen manufacturing)
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
(e.g. key cutting, metal awnings manufacture)
Prefabricated Building Manufacturing
(e.g. prefabricated sheds)

ANZSIC has been produced by the Australia Bureau of Statistics and the New Zealand Department of Statistics for the collection and analysis of industry data. NT WorkSafe uses the classifications to report workplace health and safety statistics, including information on compensation claims, injuries and fatalities.

Main causes of injuries

In the Northern Territory, the three main causes of injury which resulted in a workers compensation claim being lodged in the Manufacturing Industry were:

Muscular stress (lifting carrying objects, putting down objects).
Being hit by moving objects.
Being hit by falling objects.

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Manual Handling

Manual handling is one of the largest causes of workplace injury in the Northern Territory. Manual handling means using your body to exert force to lift, lower, push, pull, carry, move, hold or restrain objects or people.

Hazardous manual handling can lead to serious musculoskeletal injuries. These can be debilitating and long-term conditions that can severely affect a person quality of life.

Where a risk to a workers health and safety has been identified, then control measures must be introduced so as to minimise the risk. Control measures may include such things as:

redesign the task or the workplace to eliminate or reduce the need for manual handling; and
the use of tools or mechanical assistance to undertake or assist in the task, appropriate training in techniques to be used to minimise risks in manual handling.

Wherever control measures are introduced, follow-up checks need to be made to ensure the controls are working as intended.

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