Surveillance of Australian Workplace Based Respiratory Events

The SABRE Project in New South Wales

What are the project aims?

To develop and maintain a notification scheme involving thoracic and occupational physicians, and general practitioners with an interest in occupational medicine.
To determine the incidence of work related respiratory disease and inhalational injury in NSW.
To disseminate information about the burden of occupational respiratory disease in NSW.

Such a system has never existed before in NSW and has the potential to decrease the incidence of occupational respiratory disease and to be of significant public health benefit.