Brazil
Organization responsible for the statistics
Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social - INSS (National Institute of
Social Security)
of the Ministério da Previdência e Assistência
Social (MPAS)
(Ministry of Social Welfare and Assistance)
.
Periodicity
Annual.
Source
Reports of occupational accidents (Comunicação de Acidentes do
Trabalho, CAT, Information on Occupational Accidents
) filled in
by the employer or by the enterprise's specialized safety and
occupational health service (Serviço especializado em engenharia
de segurança e em medicina do trabalho, SESMT) submitted for
compensation.
Objectives and users
Improvement of work conditions and environment in the
enterprises.
Major users:
All organizations, workers' and employers' bodies involved in the
prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.
Coverage
Persons:
Paid employees covered by social security. Domestic workers,
own-account workers and other workers without employment ties are
excluded, because in these categories there is no employer to be
responsible for the occurrence of occupational accidents.
Approximately 24,000,000 employees were covered by social
security in 1996 (Source: Relatório Anual de Informações Sociais
(RAIS), Ministério do Trabalho (MTb) (Annual Report on Social
Information of the Ministry of Labour)
).
Economic activities:
All economic activities and sectors where there is an employer
responsible for the occurrence of occupational accidents.
Geographic areas:
The whole country.
The statistics do not cover employees outside the country,
neither persons normally residing outside the country.
Establishments:
All types and sizes of establishments.
Types of occupational accidents covered
Occupational injuries due to all types of occupational accidents
for which compensation is payable, including commuting accidents.
Statistics of occupational diseases are compiled and published
separately from those on occupational injuries.
Concepts and definitions
(Source: Law No. 8.213, of 24 July 1991 and Decree No. 611 of
21 July 1992)
The definitions of the following concepts conform with those
contained in the ILO Code of Practice on the Reporting and
Notification of Occupational Accidents and Diseases:
- Occupational accident;
- Occupational injury;
- Commuting accident;
- Worktime lost;
- Fatal occupational injury;
- Temporary incapacity to work;
- Permanent incapacity to work.
Minimum period of absence from work:
one day.
Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury:
none.
Types of information compiled
Information on personal characteristics of persons injured,
characteristics of accidents, injuries, employers and workplaces
are available in the reports of occupational accidents (CAT), but
this information is not compiled for statistical purposes. The
only statistics compiled refer to totals.
The amount of worktime lost is not requested in the
occupational injury report (CAT).
Measurement of worktime lost
Worktime lost is measured in calendar days.
It is not measured for fatal injuries.
Temporary absences for medical treatment are not included.
Classifications
(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;
(b) extent of disability:
temporary or permanent incapacity;
(c) economic activity:
not available;
(d) occupation:
not available;
(e) type of injury:
not available;
(f) cause of accident:
not available;
(g) duration of absence from work:
whether temporary incapacity for less than 15 days or more than
15 days;
(h) characteristics of workers:
not available;
(i) characteristics of accidents:
not available;
(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:
not available.
Crossclassifications:
none.
Reference period
Year.
An injury is included in the statistics for the period when
the occupational accident occurred. Worktime lost because of an
injury is recorded in the period when the person returned to
work.
Estimates
Totals only.
Historical background of the series
The statistics were first compiled further to the Decree-Law
No. 7.036 of 10 November 1944, because the premia for the
occupational accident insurance was
fixed in proportion to the number of accidents occurring under
each enterprise's responsibility.
Changes occurred in 1967 (Law No. 5.316), particularly in the
coverage of commuting accidents (accidents occurring on the way
between the place of work and the worker's residence). Prior to
1967, commuting accidents were excluded, except when
transportation was provided by the employer or when the
employee's commuting was of necessity undertaken by dangerous
means, to which the general public was not exposed. Changes,
particularly concerning administration, took place in 1976 (Law
No. 6.367), 1991 (Law No. 8.213) and 1996 (republication of Law
No. 8.213, drawing attention to Article 6 of Law No. 9.032 of
28 April 1995).
Documentation
Series available:
The following tables are published:
- recorded occupational accidents by type of accident
(
typical
, occupational disease or commuting accident), and
national, regional and provincial;
- compensated occupational accidents by consequence: simple
medical assistance, temporary incapacity (less than 15 days or
more than 15 days), permanent incapacity (accident assistance
benefit or disability pension benefit), fatal accidents, and
national, regional and provincial.
Bibliographic references:
The data are published in:
Ministério da Previdência e Assistência Social: Anuário
Estatístico da Previdência Social
(annual).
Methodological notes appear in this publication along with the
data.
Data published by ILO:
The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for
publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics
, relating
compensated injuries (including commuting accidents and
occupational diseases): number of persons fatally injured,
number of persons injured with lost workdays (persons losing at
least 15 days per period of incapacity), total of these two
groups; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk
(total number of paid employees) is also supplied and stored in
the LABORSTA database.
Confidentiality:
There are no restrictions on the publication of the data on
occupational injuries.
International standards
Due consideration has been given to the recommendations and
standards of the ILO as well as to the point of view of
organizations of employers, workers and other users.
Method of data collection
Legislation:
Law No. 8.213 of 24 July 1991.
All occupational accidents and diseases are covered by the
compensation scheme. The accident report for compensation should
be submitted within 24 hours from the time of the occupational
accident or the diagnosis of the occupational disease.
Reporting:
The employee or his/her family submits the accident report for
compensation. The employee should inform his or her employer of
the occupational accident, who should fill the CAT. With the CAT
completed by the employer, the employee goes to a medical service
where the LEM form (Laudo de Exame Médico (Report of the Medical
Examination)
), on the reverse side of the CAT, is filled in by a
physician. The CAT should then be immediately sent to the
administrative unit of the INSS. The authorized form for the
claim (CAT) comprises instructions for notification, but no
guidance on the submission of claims or the compensation scheme.
Data reported:
The CAT form for the submission of claims consists of the
following:
Urban
Part I: Comunicação de Acidente do Trabalho (CAT):
- information about the enterprise: official title, address,
municipality (city), province, registration number, activity
code;
- information about the injured employee: name, address, date
of birth, age, sex, civil status, serial number of CTPS (Carteira
de Trabalho e Previdência Social
(Work and Social Welfare
Identity Card)
), occupation, salary (amount), whether salary by
hour, day or month, whether self employed, retired or
recommencing treatment;
- information about the accident: date, hour, hours worked
before the accident, date when the employee stopped working,
place of accident, whether a police report was prepared, agency
of accident, description of the accident and part(s) of the body
injured;
- information about two witnesses: name and address;
- name of the medical service where the injured employee was
sent;
- place, date, signature and enterprise stamp;
- for the use of INPS (Instituto Nacional de Previdência Social
(National Institute of Social Welfare)
): date of receipt of
form, branch office, accident code and number, year of the
accident, whether the accident was characterised as an
occupational accident, whether the employee entered in the social
welfare system after 60 years of age;
- salary to be considered: salary of contribution (amount),
salary of benefit (amount), signature and name of the official,
and date.
Part II: Laudo de Exame Médico (LEM):
- name of the medical service, date, hour;
- description of the injury(ies);
- probable diagnosis;
- whether the evolution of the injury(ies) is compatible with
the accident date reported in Part I;
- whether there is a correlation between the nature, extent and
bodily location of injury(ies) and the accident history which
caused it(them);
- whether the injured employee should be treated in a medical
service or in a hospital;
- estimated duration of the treatment in days;
- date when and place of hospitalization of the injured
employee;
- whether the injured employee should be absent from work
during the treatment;
- existing pathological conditions previous to the accident;
- observations, place, date, signature and stamp of the
physician.
Rural
Part I: Comunicação de Acidente do Trabalho Rural (CAT -
Rural):
Enterprise name and address; date of occupational accident;
name, address, date of birth, sex and civil status of the injured
employee; place of accident; accident history and agency; part(s)
of body injured; name and address of two witnesses; whether a
police report was made out and if so the authority and location;
name and address of the medical service where the injured
employee was sent; signature of informant (should be the employer
or his(her) representative), place and date.
Part II: Laudo de Exame Médico de Acidentado (LEMA):
- Local representative: name, date of birth and beneficiary
number of injured employee; date of accident;
- Physician: date; history of the injury, functional
disturbance or disease; description of the injury, functional
disturbance or disease; whether there is a correlation between
the accident history and the nature, extent and bodily location
of the diagnosis; whether the injury, functional disturbance or
diagnosed disease characterises an occupational accident; type of
treatment; whether hospitalization was necessary; whether the
injured employee should be absent from work and if so the period
of absence; existing pathological conditions prior to the
accident; disease code; whether incapacity or disability is
expected; if the cause was not an accident, whether the diagnosed
disability provides for pension benefit of PRO-RURAL;
observations, place, date, signature and registration number of
the physician;
- Local representative: extension, local representative code,
signature, stamp and date;
- Regional physician assistant or local revisor: whether
confirmed, change in the period, signature and registration
number of the physician.
Changes planned:
None.