Greece

Organization responsible for the statistics

Collection: Organisation de la Securité Sociale (OSS) (Social Security Organization).

Compilation and publication: Office national de Statistique de Grèce (Greek National Statistics Office).

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

The data are derived, for the most part, from compensation claims submitted to the Social Insurance Institute (IKA), which is the largest insurance organization in the country.

Objectives and users

The formulation of measures by the State to reduce, and especially to prevent, occupational injuries, and to improve working conditions;
Determination of the cost of compensating victims of occupational injuries, and thus, production costs.

Major users:

The State, the services of the European Union, researchers and research centres (universities, etc.).

Coverage

Persons:

Insured employees.

In 1994, approximately 1,900,000 persons were covered.

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

The whole country.

Establishments:

All types and sizes of establishment.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics relate to compensated injuries due to all types of occupational accidents, including commuting accidents.

Occupational diseases are not included in the statistics.

Concepts and definitions

The terms and definitions used in this questionnaire are consistent with those contained in the Code of practice on recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases (ILO, 1994).

Minimum period of absence from work: one day, including the day of the accident.

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

Types of information compiled

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

(b) amount of worktime lost: days of incapacity to work;

(d) characteristics of injuries: by nature of injury, part of body injured;

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

Measurement of worktime lost

Worktime lost is measured in calendar days, for all occupational injuries.

Temporary absences of less than one day are not counted as worktime lost.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation;

(e) type of injury;

(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:

by nature of injury and part of body injured;
economic activity and age;
economic activity and sex;
economic activity and nature of injury;
economic activity and part of body injured;
occupation and age;
occupation and sex;
occupation and type of injury;
occupation and part of body injured.

Reference period

Year.

An injury is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which a claim regarding the accident was submitted to the relevant authority.

Worktime lost is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the accident occurred.

Estimates

Total number.

Historical background of the series

Statistics of occupational injuries have been compiled by the IKA since 1947. The SNSG has published the IKA data since 1969. Also in 1969, the SNSG attempted, for the first time, to compile information on occupational injuries compensated by other insurance providers.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

the number of persons insured and the number of occupational injuries compensated by the IKA;
occupational injuries compensated by the IKA, by:
- age;
- nature of the injury;
- cause of the injury;
- part of body injured;
- economic activity;
- geographic region.

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Office national de Statistique de Grèce: Enquête annuelle sur l'activité des organismes de sécurité sociale.

Ministère du Travail et des Services Régionaux: Rapport annuel (up to 1994).

All the data are published.

They can be provided on diskette, upon request.

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to compensated 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 insured employees) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.

Confidentiality:

Personal data concerning victims are confidential and are not published.

International standards

International statistical standards and guidelines were followed in harmonizing the definitions and methodology, which became effective 1 January 1997.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

Act creating the IKA, No. 1846/51, Article 34, and subsequent special regulations. External and internal traumatisms which result in temorary or permanent incapacity, or in death, are covered by the compensation scheme.

Reporting:

Reports of occupational injuries are submitted by the injured person or by his/her employer to the Social Security Organization. A standard form is used for this. It is accompanied by instructions in the form of a circular.

Data reported:

The standard form used for the the notification supplies the following data:

information about the injured person: name, occupation, work being performed at the time of the accident, birthdate, civil status, address, salary or daily compensation;
information about the employer: registration number, name, address, number of employed persons in the enterprise by sex;
information about the accident: place, date, time, day of the week, detailled description of the way in which the accident occurred and its cause (for example, in case of force majeur, lack of prevention measures, the injured person's carelessness, ignorance of the risk, fatigue, unusual heat or cold, the fault of coworkers or the employer), part of body injured, whether the accident caused the injured person to stop working, date and time injured person stopped working.

Changes planned:

None.