(Danish Working Environment Service).
Primarily, the data are used for prevention purposes.
The data provide an important basis for establishing priorities in the framing of regulations, disseminating information, preparing campaigns for occupational safety and health and planning education and training.
The statistics can also indicate the work processes that cause most injuries.
In 1996, 2,584,866 employed persons were covered.
Persons working outside Denmark are not included.
Persons normally resident outside the country who are involved in occupational accidents in Denmark are included.
Statistics of occupational diseases are compiled along with those on occupational injuries.
Commuting accidents are not included, in general.
Occupational diseases are not included in the statistics
provided to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour
Statistics
.
an injury sustained by a person at his place of work, where the event which causes the injury:
Minimum period of absence from work:
one day in addition to the day on which the accident occurred.
Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury:
in principle none; in practice, normally one year.
(a) personal characteristics of persons injured:
age, sex, nationality, occupation and form of employment;
socio-economic status;
(b) amount of worktime lost:
recorded in groups of days of absence from work;
(c) characteristics of accidents:
time of day (in hours and minutes); work activity at the moment
of the accident; event which led to the accident; mode of injury
(manner in which the injured person came into contact with the
factor causing the injury); component related to the activity of
the injured person at the moment of the accident; component
related to the deviant action which caused the accident; agent of
the injury; municipal district where the accident occurred;
(d) characteristics of injuries:
part of body injured; type of injury; consequences of the injury;
class of injury (a summary of the three previous aspects, which
is automatically compiled by the computer);
(e) characteristics of employers or workplaces:
geographic location; employment size; work environment (workshop
area, office, forest or wood, road, etc.); economic activity.
(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;
nature of injury
: amputation, permanent loss of body part;
bone fracture; sprain, strain, twisting; concussion, internal
injuries; injury to muscle and tissue; open wounds; skin
abrasions and superficial scratches; burns, heat-induced
injuries; frostbite, cold-induced injuries; caustic injuries;
skin irritation; toxic injury; infections; shock; acute hearing
injury;
part of body injured
: head; eyes; teeth; face, other parts;
body (torso); neck; back, spinal column; chest, abdomen, pelvis;
internal organs; upper extremities; shoulder; upper and lower
part of arm; elbow; wrist; hand; fingers, one or more; lower
extremities; hip, hip joint; upper and lower part of leg; knee,
knee cap; ankle; foot; toes, one or more; large parts of body;
entire body; part of body not specified; unknown;
consequences of injury
: more or less than one week's absence
from work, or fatal;
class of injury
: a summary of the nature of injury, part of
body injured and consequences of injury;
action leading to injury
: struck by/hit against, collided
with; trapped, crushed; contact with rough, pointed, sharp
objects; contact with temperature extremes; contact with
electrical voltage; contact with harmful substances and
materials; bites, kicks, blows; drowned, buried, enveloped by;
acute overload of body or parts thereof;
agent of injury
: areas, constructions, buildings; prime
movers and transmissions; hand tools; machines; conveying and
transporting equipment; control and information systems; machine
components; packaging, products, substances and materials;
(g) duration of absence from work;
activity of the injured person at the time of the accident
:
handling; presence and activity; movement; adjustment, cleaning
and maintenance; working with hand tools; operation of machinery
and transport equipment;
component related to the activity of the injured person
:
areas, constructions, buildings; prime movers and transmissions;
hand tools; machines; conveying and transport equipment; control
and information systems; machine components; packaging, products,
substances and materials;
deviant action
: breakage, fracture, deformation of material;
explosion, fire, flare-up; outflow, vaporisation; electrical
short circuit; lost control over machine; lost control over
handling; slip, fall, collapse; caught in/by, held by; treading,
kneeling, sitting; fall on same level; fall to lower level; play,
fight; defective or missing safety equipment; traffic accident;
component related to the deviant action
: areas,
constructions, buildings; prime movers and transmissions; hand
tools; machines; conveying and transport equipment; control and
information systems; machine components; packaging, products,
substances and materials; time of day;
An injury is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the accident occurred.
Average number of injuries per full-time worker.
Rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries in relation to the number of persons employed.
Several changes have taken place.
In 1989, a new system for the registration of occupational accidents was introduced by the Registry of Occupational Injuries. Among other things, this system registers the qualitative details associated with the accident event.
The present system began in 1992, and in 1993 the new classifications by occupation and economic activity were introduced.
Number of persons injured, by:
Arbejdstilsynet, Analyse og Dokumentationssekretariatet:
Anmeldte Arbejdsulykker of arbejdsbetingede lidelser,
Arsopgorelse
(annual).
Danmarks Statistik: Statistical Yearbook
.
The Danish Working Environment Service also produces reports dealing with individual economic activities, such as shipyards and boatyards.
Methodological information about the statistics is published
in Danish Labour Inspection Service: The functions of the
Danish Registry of Occupational Injuries
(1991), and in
Commission of the European Communities: Methodology for the
Harmonization of European Occupational Accident Statistics
(1992).
The data are all either published or made available in analyses. Extracts from the Register of Occupational Injuries may be made on the basis of any of the recorded variables, for a fee. It is possible to construct three- and four-dimensional tables, i.e. tables showing the relationship between three or four variables. Virtually any selection of variables and any combination are possible. Information may be made available in printed form or on diskette.
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; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk (total number of persons employed) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.
Employers' and workers' organizations were consulted when the Registry was established.
Occupational injuries may be notified to the Danish Working Environment Service, which uses the data for accident prevention work in accordance with the Danish Working Environment Act, and the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries (part of the Ministry of Social Affairs), which uses them to decide claims for compensation. The same form may be used for the notification, but the Working Environment Act and the Act on Industrial Injury Insurance cover different populations. Built-in safeguard ensure that an injury which is notified by several different channels is only registered once in the Register.