Statistics of occupational accidents

1 Dr. Ahmed-Refat AG Refat SBCM 2014
Statistics
of Occupational Injuries
Dr. Ahmed-Refat AG Refat
19/10/2014

FACTS ON
safety and health at work
( ILO -2014)

Every 15 seconds,
a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease.
Every 15 seconds,
160 workers have a work-related accident.
Workplaces claim more than 2.3 million deaths per year,
out of which 350,000 are fatal accidents
and close to 2 million are work-related diseases.

In addition, 313 million accidents occur on the job annually.
The human cost of this daily adversity is vast and the economic burden of poor occupational safety and health practices is estimated at 4 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product each year.
Source:
http://ilo.org/global/topics/safety-and-health-at-work/lang--en/index.htm

Statistics
of Occupational Injuries " Indicators of safety and health at work"
Indicators of safety and health at work provide the framework for assessing the extent to which workers are protected from work-related hazards and risks.

Types of OHS Indicators
 Indicators of outcome: number of occupational injuries and diseases, number of workers involved and work days lost;
 Indicators of capacity and capability: number of inspectors or health professionals dealing with occupational safety and health;
 Indicators of activities: number of trainee days, number of inspections;

Current international statistical guidelines on occupational injuries are found in the “Resolution concerning statistics of occupational injuries (resulting from occupational accidents), adopted by the Sixteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians in 1998.
Available at:
http://ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/statistics-overview-and-topics/safety-and-health/lang-- en/index.htm
http://ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/--- stat/documents/normativeinstrument/wcms_087528.pdf

History of Statistics of Occupational Injuries
The subject of industrial accident statistics was placed on the agenda of the First International Conference of Labour Statisticians (I.C.L.S) in 1923, which adopted a resolution.

History …….Cont-
The resolution was later revised by the sixth I.C.L.S in 1947, to improve international comparability, and made detailed recommendations on the methods to be followed in calculating frequency and severity rates.
Some years later, the Eighth I.C.L.S considered the standardization of statistics of occupational diseases, and adopted a resolution indicating in particular the sources of data to be used, the disease to be recorded and the classifications to be established.

The Tenth I.C.L.S adopted a revised resolution that superseded existing guidelines, and introduced the term “employment injuries” which covers industrial accidents, commuting accidents and occupational diseases. It defined the notions of fatalities, permanent disablement and temporary disablement and suggested four classifications of accidents, by type of accident, physical agency, the nature of the injury and the bodily location of the injury.

Since 1941, the ILO has collected statistics on occupational injuries for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, requesting countries to provide data in accordance with the most recent international recommendations on the subject.
Statistics on occupational diseases are not collected by ILO.

Statistics of Occupational injuries
The unit of observation should be the
case of occupational injury,
i.e. the case of one worker incurring an occupational injury as a result of one occupational accident.
If a person is injured in more than one occupational accident during the reference period, each case of injury to that
person should be counted separately.

Recurrent absences due to an injury resulting from a single
occupational accident should be treated as the continuation of the same case of occupational injury,not as new cases.
Where more than one person is injured in a single accident, each case of occupational injury should be
counted separately.
Fatal occupational injury
For measurement purposes, a fatal occupational injury is an occupational injury leading to death within one year of the day of the occupational accident.

Uses of injury statistics
(a) to identify the occupations where injuries occur, along with their extent, and severity, as a basis for planning, setting priorities for preventive measures;
(b) to detect changes in the pattern and occurrence of occupational injuries, so as to monitor improvements in safety and reveal any new areas of risk;
(c) to inform workers and workers’ organizations of the risks associated with their work and workplaces, so that they can take an active part in their own safety;

Uses of injury statistics-cont.
(d) to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive measures;
(e) to estimate the consequences of occupational injuries,
(f) to assist in developing training material and programmes for accident prevention;
(g) to identifying possible areas for future research

Terms and definitions
(a) occupational accident:
an unexpected and unplanned occurrence, including acts of violence, arising out of or in connection with work which results in one or more workers incurring a personal injury,disease or death; as occupational accidents are to be considered travel, transport or road traffic accidents in which workers are injured and which arise out of or in the course of work, i.e. while engaged in an economic activity, or at work, or carrying on the business of the employer;

(b) commuting accident:
an accident occurring on the habitual route, in either direction, between the place of work
or work-related training and:
(i) the worker’s principal or secondary residence;
(ii) the place where the worker usually takes his / her meals;
(iii) the place where he or she usually receives his or her remuneration; which results in death or personal injury;

(c) occupational injury:
any personal injury, disease or death resulting from an occupational accident; an occupational injury is therefore distinct from an occupational disease, which is a disease contracted as a result of an exposure over a period of time to risk factors arising from work
activity;
(d) case of occupational injury: the case of one worker incurring an occupational injury as a result of one occupational accident;

(e) incapacity for work:
inability of the victim, due to an occupational injury, to perform the normal duties of work in the job or post occupied at the time of the occupational accident.

Commonly Used Injury Rates
According to ILO
Injury Frequency Rate

Injury Incidence Rate

Injury Severity Rate

Days Lost per new occupational Injury

Injury rates as set in the
American National Standards institute
(ANSI) Z16.4 Code
The Injury Frequency Rate
The Injury Severity Rate

Total Injury-Ilness Incidence Rate
The 200,000 hours represents the number of
workhours spent by 100 workers in a year:

Statistics of occupational accidents

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