Bahrain

Organization responsible for the statistics

General Organisation for Social Insurance (GOSI).

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted by employers to the GOSI.

Objectives and users

To focus attention on the prevailing hazards.

Major users:

GOSI, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Ministry of Public Health.

Coverage

Persons:

All persons employed.

In 1996, 120,984 workers were covered (35,412 Bahrainis and 85,572 expatriates).

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

The whole country.

All occupational injuries occurring within the country are covered.

Establishments:

All types and sizes of establishments, although employers with fewer than ten workers are not required to contribute to the social insurance scheme, but may contribute on a voluntary basis.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover reported injuries due to all types of occupational accidents, including commuting accidents.

Statistics of occupational diseases are compiled and published together with the statistics of occupational injuries.

Concepts and definitions

Occupational injury:

an injury to a worker as a result of an accident arising out of or during the course of the performance of his work.

Commuting accident:

an accident in which a worker sustains an injury and which occurs on the way to or from work or on the way from the place of work to the place where the worker customarily takes his meals, provided that he did not stop or deviate from the customary route.

Minimum period of absence from work: none.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: none.

Types of information compiled

(a) personal characteristics of persons injured: sex, occupation;

(b) amount of worktime lost:

(c) characteristics of accidents;

(d) characteristics of injuries;

(e) characteristics of employers or workplaces: economic activity; location.

Measurement of worktime lost

Worktime lost is measured in workdays, for temporary incapacity to work only.

Temporary absences for medical treatment of less than one day are not included.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation;

(e) type of injury:

part of body injured: face, neck, eye, hand, arm, upper part of body, lower part of body, leg, feet, head, deaths, burns, other injuries;

(f) cause of accident;

(g) duration of absence from work;

(h) characteristics of workers;

(i) characteristics of accidents;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces.

Crossclassifications:

Information not available.

Reference period

Month and year.

An injury is included in the statistics for the period (month or year) in which the accident occurred.

Worktime lost is included in the statistics for the period (month or year) when the person returned to work.

Estimates

Total number of persons injured and workdays lost.

Rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries.

Historical background of the series

The statistics were first compiled in 1976.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

Number of persons injured by:

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

General Organisation for Social Insurance: Annual report.

Central Statistical Organization: Statistical Abstract (annual). All available data are published. The published tables can be made available on diskette.

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 (including occupational diseases and commuting accidents) 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 persons insured) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.

Confidentiality:

There are no restrictions on the publication or release of the data.

International standards

The international statistical standards were taken into account when the methods used for collecting and compiling the statistics were designed.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

Social insurance law.

All occupational injuries should be reported within 24 hours of the occurrence of the injury.

Reporting:

The employer or the insured person reports the injury to the GOSI. A standard form is used for this purposes, which includes instructions and guidelines.

Data reported:

Information not available.

Changes planned:

none.