Mag. Beate Mayer

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The Level of Safety at Work A Comparison for the
Members of the EU

• Mag. Beate Mayer
• (Austrian Workers Compensation Board)

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Safety at Work

• Eurostat Data Collection
• data, variables, measures, results
• Differences in Reporting Systems
• collection, coverage, definitions
• Possibilities

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Just Figures?

• number of reported accidents EU-15 2000
• million accidents at work with more than 3 days
  absence 2003
• fatal accidents at work EU-15 2003
• occupational diseases in 11 Member States 2003

7.628.184 4.2 4.664 54.250
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In other Words
one accident at work in Europe every 5 seconds
4 of all workers are victims of an accident at
work during the year
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Eurostat Data

• Accidents at work
• Commuting accidents
• Occupational diseases
• Work related health problems
• and accidental injuries

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Collection of Data

• European Statistics on accidents at work (ESAW)
• economic activity of the employer
• occupation of the victim
• age, sex and nationality of the victim
• type of injury
• part of body injured
• geographical location of the accident
• date and time of the accident
• size and economic activity of the employer
• days lost
• working environment and working process
• description of the accident

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Describing the Accident
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Describing the Accident

• What was a person doing when the accident
  happened ?
• Which tool, which object was used ?
• What was "different" ?
• What did not work, what crashed, what went wrong
  ?
• How was the victim hurt ?
• What did he/she get in contact with ?
  

Austria objective cause for the accident,
specific activity
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Available Eurostat Data
dimensions
measures
combinations
where? - http//epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int
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Data Available from Eurostat

• Make a Selection

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Data Available from Eurostat

• Set Rows and Columns

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Data Available from Eurostat

• Results

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What are we looking at?
Data of the Austrian Workers Compensation Board
accidents at work, commuting accidents
Statistik Data-ware-house
accidents of pupils
occupational diseases
pensions caused by ..
employees, self-employed
enterprises
schools
follow-up costs for accidents at work
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Incidence Rates
Incidence Rates by Eurostat
economic activity, severity and age or sex
fatal accidents economic activity, member state
and age economic activity and size of the
enterprise
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Differences in Reporting Procedures

• insurance based systems (public or private)
  10 Member States Switzerland
• - very high reporting level
• sometimes up to 100 reporting level

• legal obligation of the employer to notify the
  accidents to the relevant national authorities
  (Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden,
  United Kingdom) Norway
• economic incentive for notifying accidents at
  work is not very strong
• 30 to 50 reporting level
• WEIGHTING

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Branches
agriculture,hunting and forestry manufacturing ele
ctricity, gas and water supply construction
wholesale and retail trade and repair hotels and
restaurants transport and communication financial
intermediation real estate and business services
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Differences in Coverage

• all countries only "private sector"
• 9 NACE branches A, D, E, F, G, H, I
• not all countries, no full coverage
• Public Administration(incl. police and
  firebrigades) education - health and social
  work
• Transport, Storage and Communication
• maritime transport - air transport -
  transport via railways post and
  telecommunications
• Mining and Quarrying
• off shore - others

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ESAW 2003 Initial Results
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Manufacturing
Accidents at work with more than 3 days off in
selected countries
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Branches
incidence rates per 100.000 workers
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Differences in Reporting Systems

• employment status
• rates for salary workers only?
• vs. all self-employed, family workers,
  trainees, unknowns
• building the correct reference population for
  incidence rates!

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Differences in Reporting Systems

• fatal accidents
• all cases are included (also road traffic
  accidents at work exc IE, UK)

"accidents at work leading to death of the victim
within a year (after the day) of the accident"
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Fatal Accidents
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Implementation of "Phase 3"
Variable AT DK ES FI IT PT SE UK LV BG
Workstation F 91 85 90
Working environment F 99 70 95 100
Working process AP 93 97 70 100
Specific physical Activity (SPA) AF 92 90 70 100
Material agent of SPA 87 64 100
Deviation (DEV) FP 93 100 70 95 100 100 100
Material agent of DEV FP 90 63 100
Contact - Mode of injury (CMI) 100 96 100 70 95 100 100 100 100
Material agent of CMI   92 90 95 65 95   92   100
all values F..farmers, A..AUVA, P..public
sector
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Aims of Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2007

• Analysis according to Labour Market variables not
  available in ESAW and EODS
• Accidents at work
• Cases with less than 4 days absence
• Sectors and groups not fully covered by ESAW
• asessments of the ESAW reporting levels
• Work-related health problems
• frequency and burden(absence) of diseases only
  partially caused by work or made worse by work
• frequency of new emerging types of occupational
  diseases not yet included in the list of
  occupational diseases (esp musculoskeletal and
  psychosocial health problems)

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Measures of the AUVA

• number of accidents
• number of employees
• number of self-employed
• number of pupils
• Incidence rates
• days off
• payments
• pensions
• follow-up costs

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Thanks for your attention!

• For further questions,
• for ordering statistics
• Mag. Beate Mayer
• 43-1-33111-343
• HST_at_auva.at
• www.auva.at