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Injury Statistics in the EU - At Work (DG Employment & social affairs + Eurostat) - Home and leisure accidents (DG H

Injury Statistics in the EU - At Work (DG Employment & social affairs + Eurostat) - Home and leisure accidents (DG Health and consummer protection). Statistics on Health & Safety at Work (HSW). European Statistics on Accidents at Work: ESAW project

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Injury Statistics in the EU - At Work (DG Employment & social affairs + Eurostat) - Home and leisure accidents (DG H

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  1. Injury Statistics in the EU - At Work (DG Employment & social affairs + Eurostat) - Home and leisure accidents (DG Health and consummer protection)

  2. Statistics on Health & Safety at Work (HSW) European Statistics on Accidents at Work: ESAW project European Occupational Diseases Statistics: EODS project (not developed here) Community Labour Force Survey (LFS): Ad-Hoc Module on HSW in 1999

  3. ESAW - LFS module main legal bases: Framework Council Directive 89/391/EEC, Article 9 § c) and d) : employer shall keep list of accidents at work > 3 days + report to responsible authorities Council Resolutions 88/C 028/01 & 95/C 168/01 Community programme on “Safety, hygiene and health at work 1996-2000” Council Decision 99/126/EC on Community statistical programme 98-2002 : establishment consistent series Commission Regulation 98/1571/EC (LFS ad hoc module)

  4. ESAW : 10 years works with EU experts  Main basis international standards statistics on occupational injuries 

  5. ESAW : main objectives Provide consistent harmonised data for the monitoring of efficiency of regulation (existing Directives) / non-legislative measures HSW Provide consistent harmonised data to identify targets for new prevention policies  adaptation or development of new Directives Main goal : statistics for prevention purposes

  6. ESAW: 2 types of sources Public (e.g. Social security) or private insurance = payment of benefits subject to previous declaration  100% (10 MS) Declaration to other competent authority (e.g. Labour Inspectorate)  50% (5 MS)

  7. ESAW: type of data

  8. Principle to draw up EU harmonised classifications for ESAW Phase 3: Detailed enough to be effective Not to complex to be easy to implement Sufficiently adaptable with national existing tools, and allowing more detailed classifications at national level

  9. ESAW data 1994 - 1998 EU15 - All branches

  10. ESAW

  11. ESAW data 1998 EU15 (+NO) - All branches

  12. Other activities of Eurostat on non-occupational injuriesRoad traffic accidents (1) : • 42 000 fatalities in 1998 in EU15 • -28% from 1990 (despite increase number cars) • 246 per million cars, 113 per million population • first cause of death people under the age of 40 • 1,7 million persons injured

  13. Other activities of Eurostat on non-occu-pational injuries - Causes of deaths CoD (2) : • Based on the underlying cause indicated in section B of the death certificate (ICD-10) • Standard death rate per 100 000 persons : • total “external causes” : 61.0 in 1997 (< 120,000 cases) • accidents : 38.3 of wich : transport : 17.8 - falls : 9.0 - poisoning : 1.9 • suicide : 17.5 - homicide : 1.4 - unk : 3.5

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