Lost time injury

The lost time injury ratio indicates the time lost as a result of work injuries for every million hours worked.

The results for 2004/05 show improvement over 2003/04 primarily due to a decrease in the lost time injuries in the transit guard area, attributed to improved safety awareness and work environment as well as improved injury management practices.

Country passenger rail and road coach services

Cost per 1000 place kilometres

The cost efficiency of providing the service per place kilometres is measured using the cost per 1000 place kilometres.

Transwa Rail

The increase in the cost per 1000 place kilometres for Transwa rail operations is due to:

• Additional maintenance costs due to having to keep the old Prospectors in service as a back-up to the new Prospectors, which were initially unreliable.
• Decrease in place kilometres because of less service runs due to the problems with the new Prospector railcars and the resleepering program along the Bunbury to Perth line.

Transwa Road Coaches

The increase in the average cost per passenger in 2004/05 compared to the target for 2004/05 is as a result of unforseen labour cost incurred during the year as a result of transferring staff to different awards. This involved a shift from the Work Place Agreements (WPA) to the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA).