Bangladesh

Organization responsible for the statistics

Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments.

Source

Labour inspectorate records.

Coverage

Persons:

In manufacturing: not available; in transport, storage and communication: dockers only.

Economic activities:

Manufacturing, transport, storage and communications.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

All sizes and types of establishments.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Reported injuries (from accident notification system).

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments: Annual Report.

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported injuries according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; number of workdays lost by persons injured with lost workdays; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk (total number of production and related workers) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.