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This article provides analysis and findings on quality employment indicators in the field of employment safety in Poland. It discusses the sources of data, including surveys, administrative sources, and the national survey on accidents at work and working conditions. The article highlights various indicators, such as fatal accident rates, number of inspections, and structure of injured persons by occupations. It also presents final remarks on the increase in injuries, types of industries with high and low fatal accident ratios, hazardous conditions, and expenditures on improving work safety.
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The quality employment indicators in the field of employment safety Task Force on the quality employment indicators Jolanta Szutkowska – The Consultant Methodology, Standards and Register Division of the CSO of Poland
THE SOURCE OF DATA IN THE QUALITY EMPLOYMENT INDICATORS • Different sources in the Polish labour statistics on quality employment indicators: establishment surveys, households surveys and administrative sources • Lack of the separate survey on employment quality • The application of sources harmonised with ESS i.e. LFS, SES, ESAW, structural indicators, EU –SILC, LCS • The approach based on the simplification and the reduction of burden
THE SOURCES OF DATA IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY • National survey on accidents at work conducted quarterly in units of the national economy regardless of the number of employment, harmonized with ESAW methodology since 2005. Data on accidents at work (with exception of private agriculture farms) gathered through a statistical card on accidents at work. Accidents at work on prvate agricultural farms are registered by the Social Insurance Institution. Data from the national survey on accidents at work refer to employed persons; • National survey on working conditions conducted annually in units of selected type of activity of the national economy with the number of employed 10 and more persons. Data from this survey refer to employees.
THE SOURCES OF DATA IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY (cont.) • Administrative sources of: the State Labour Inspection, the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz; • Labour costs survey which is the sample, establishment survey conducted every 4 year in units of the national economy with 10 and more employed persons.
QUALITY EMPLOYMENT INDICATORS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY • Fatal accident rate per 100000 employed persons • Accident rate per 100000 employed persons • Number of inspections and number of employed persons in companies inspected • Number and the structure of injured persons by occupations
QUALITY EMPLOYMENT INDICATORS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY • Number of occupational diseases per 100000 paid employees • Persons working in hazardous conditions per 1000 paid employees of total surveyed • The share of expenditures on improving work safety in labour costs
FINAL REMARKS FROM THE ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY • The increase of the number of persons injured and persons injured per 100000 employed persons in 2006 in comparison with 2005 • The increase of the number of persons injured in fatal accidents per 100000 employed persons in 2006 in comparison with 2005 • The highest fatal accidents ratio is registered in units conducted activity in the field of: construction, mining and quarrying, agriculture, hunting and forestry
FINAL REMARKS FROM THE ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY (cont.) • The lowest fatal accidents ratio is registered in units conducted activity in the field of: education, financial intermediation, health and social work • The assessed degree of risk and the number of employees determine the payments of employer on occupational injury insurance • The drop of the number of inspections
FINAL REMARKS FROM THE ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY (cont.) • The highest number of inspections in 2006 was registered in units conducting following type of activity: manufacturing, trade and repair, construction, the lowest one – in units conducting activity in the field of: fishing, mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply • The most hazardous occupations occure in following ISCO cathegory: - ISCO7 – craft and related trades workers - ISCO9 – elementary occupations - ISCO8 – plant and machine operators and assemblers
FINAL REMARKS FROM THE ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY (cont.) • The decrease in occupational diseases per 100000 paid employees. The most frequent occupational diseases are: chronic voice disorders due to excessive vocal effort, pneumoconioses, infectious and parasitic diseases or their sequels • The decrease of persons working in hazardous conditions • The workers who are the most exposed on hazardous conditions work in units conducting activities in the field of: mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply, manufacturing
FINAL REMARKS FROM THE ANALYSIS IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT SAFETY (cont.) • The drop in the share of expenditures on improving work safety in labour costs • The highest share of expenditures on improving work safety in labour costs was registered in mining and qarrying, fishing, construction