(a) "accident at work" means a discrete occurrence in the course of work which leads to physical or mental harm. The phrase "in the course of work" means whilst engaged in an occupational activity or during the time spent at work. This includes road traffic accidents that occur in the course of work but excludes commuting accidents, i.e. road accidents that occur during the journey between home and the workplace; (b) "a fatal accident" means an accident which leads to the death of a victim within 1 year of the accident; (c) "economic activity of the employer" covers the main "economic" activity of the local unit of the enterprise of the victim; (d) "age" means the age of the victim at the time of the accident; (e) "type of injury" means the physical consequences for the victim; (f) "geographical location" means the territorial unit where the accident has occurred; (g) "size of the enterprise" means the number of employees (full-time equivalent) working at the local unit of the enterprise of the victim; (h) "nationality of the victim" means the country of citizenship; (i) "days lost" means the number of calendar days during which the victim is unfit for work as a result of an accident at work; (j) "workstation" means the usual or, alternatively, occasional nature of the place/post occupied by the victim at the time of the accident; (k) "working environment" means the workplace, work premises or general environment where the accident happened; (l) "working process" means the main type of work or task (general activity) being performed by the victim at the time of the accident; (m) "specific physical activity" means the victim’s exact physical activity at the instant of the accident; (n) "material agent associated with the specific physical activity" means the tool, object or instrument being used by the victim when the accident happened; (o) "deviation" means the last event deviating from normality and leading to the accident; (p) "material agent associated with the deviation" means the tool, object or instrument involved in the abnormal event; (q) "contact — mode of injury" means how the victim was hurt (physical or mental trauma) by the material agent that caused the injury; (r) "material agent associated with the contact — mode of injury" means the object, tool or instrument with which the victim came into contact or the psychological mode of injury.
Commission Regulation (EU) No 349/2011 of 11 April 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics on accidents at work Text with EEA relevance
| Variables | Specifications | First year for data transmission |
|---|---|---|
| Case Number | 2013 | |
| Economic Activity of the Employer | 4-digit level of the NACE Rev.2 | |
| Occupation of the Victim | 2-digit level of the ISCO-08 | 2013 |
| Age of the Victim | 2-digit number | 2013 |
| Sex of the Victim | 1-digit code | 2013 |
| Type of Injury | 3-digit version of the ESAW classification for "Type of injury" according to the ESAW methodology. | 2013 |
| Part of Body Injured | 2-digit version of the classification of "part of body injured" according to the ESAW methodology. | 2013 |
| Geographical Location of the Accident | 5-digit code according to the NUTS classification. | 2013 |
| Date of the Accident | Numeric variable which is indicated as year, month and day | 2013 |
| Time of the Accident | 2-digit variable describing time intervals in hours according to the ESAW methodology | optional |
| Size of the Enterprise | Categories according to the ESAW methodology | optional |
| Nationality of the Victim | Categories according to the ESAW methodology | optional |
| Employment Status of the Victim | Categories according to the ESAW methodology | 2013 |
| Days Lost (severity) | Categories according to the ESAW methodology. Specific codes are used to denote permanent incapacity and fatal accident. | 2013 |
| Weight ESAW collection | 2013 |
| Variables | Specifications | First year for data transmission |
|---|---|---|
| Categories according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 3-digit version of the classification of "Working Environment" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 2-digit version of the classification of "Working Process" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 2-digit version of the classification of "Specific Physical Activity" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 2-digit version of the classification of "Deviation" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 2-digit version of the classification of "Contact — Mode of injury" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 4-digit version of the classification of "Material Agent" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 4-digit version of the classification of "Material Agent" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| 4-digit version of the classification of "Material Agent" according to the ESAW methodology | 2015 | |
| Weight Causes and Circumstances | 2015 |
According to ISCO-08: 0 Armed forces occupations 3351 Customs and border inspectors 3355 Police inspectors and detectives 541 Protective services workers a. 5411 Fire-fighters b. 5412 Police officers c. 5413 Prison guards d. 5414 Security guards e. 5419 Protective services workers not elsewhere classified
According to NACE Rev.2: 84.22 Defence activities 84.23 Justice and judicial activities 84.24 Public order and safety activities 84.25 Fire services activities
the population covered in terms of NACE Rev.2 sectors, and possibly subsectors, and employment status, the information on professions/activities for which data on accidents at work are subject to confidentiality by national legislation and cannot be transmitted, the declaration rates for accidents at work which are to be used for correction of under-reporting, the coverage of the different types of accidents as explained in the ESAW methodology, the sampling method — if applicable — used in the setup of the microdata collection, the sampling method — if applicable — which is used for encoding of the variables on causes and circumstances, the numbers of fatal road traffic accidents and fatal accidents on board any means of transport during a journey in the course of work for persons employed outside the NACE Rev.2 sector H "Transportation", information about any national specificity essential for the interpretation and compilation of comparable statistics and indicators.