Moldova, Rep. of

Organization responsible for the statistics

Department for Statistical and Sociological Research.

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted by enterprises.

Objectives and users

To provide information on occupational safety and health.

Major users:

Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and the Family, State Occupational Safety and Health Inspectorate.

Coverage

Workers:

All paid employees, including young people.

About 1,100,000 workers are covered.

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

The whole country, except the left bank of the Dniestr and the city of Bendery.

Persons injured in occupational accidents outside the country are not included in the statistics, nor are injuries incurred in the country by persons who are normally resident outside the country.

Establishments:

Establishments with more than 20 persons employed.

Types of occupational accidents covered

All types of reported occupational accidents.

Concepts and definitions

Occupational accident:

an occurrence causing injury (wound, electric shock, burns, frostbite, suffocation, acute poisoning, etc.) to a worker as a result of risk factors (properties, conditions, processes, phenomena, or behaviour, including natural disasters and criminal assault), causing temporary or permanent loss of capacity to work or death, and occurring under the following circumstances:

during work or the performance of work-related duties or State or public functions;
during established breaks, or while the worker is changing from his or her own clothing into individual protective or work clothes, or vice versa, while production equipment, tools or facilities, workplaces or materials are being handed over, during visits to sanitary and auxiliary facilities, while the worker is at the workplace, or while the worker is on the premises of the enterprise or is moving around them during the working day;
during occupational training or practical training at the enterprise;
during participation in cultural, sporting and other events organized by the enterprise;
when the worker is commuting to or from work using transport provided by the enterprise;
when the worker is commuting from the employing enterprise to another enterprise (separate workplaces); travelling to or from another town or city within the country or abroad for work-related purposes, or to carry out State or public functions, irrespective of who owns the means of transport used;
in the course of saving human life or preventing or eliminating hazards in the circumstances indicated under the points above.

Time lost because of occupational injuries:

workdays of absence from work (excluding rest days and public holidays) resulting from temporary incapacity caused by an occupational accident and certified by a medical leave certificate.

Fatal occupational injury:

an occupational accident resulting in death, either immediate or after some time has elapsed, duly certified by a forensic medical establishment.

Temporary incapacity to work:

an occupational accident resulting in the partial or full incapacity of a worker for at least one day, full capacity being recovered following medical treatment and duly certified by a medical establishment.

Serious occupational accident:

an occupational accident resulting in serious injury duly certified by a medical establishment.

Minimum period of absence from work: one work day.

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

Types of information compiled

(a) personal characteristics of workers injured: sex, age (young persons below 18/adults);

(b) amount of worktime lost: number of work days of temporary incapacity for work, including days not worked by fatal cases;

(d) characteristics of injuries: none;

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

(f) other characteristics: material losses caused by occupational accidents.

Measurement of worktime lost

Time lost is measured in work days, excluding rest days and public holidays. It is measured for all absences from work resulting from temporary incapacity to work caused by occupational accidents, including fatal accidents. Only the time lost during the reporting year in which the occupational accident occurred is recorded.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation:

not applicable;

(e) type of injury:

not applicable;

(f) cause of accident:

circumstances resulting in the occupational accident;

(g) duration of absence from work:

not applicable;

(h) characteristics of workers:

none;

(i) characteristics of accidents:

none;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

none.

Reference period

One year.

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

Work time lost is included in the statistics for the reference period (year) in which the accident occurred.

Estimates

All relevant totals.

Rates of all occupational injuries and of fatal injuries per 1,000 employees.

Historical background of the series

The statistics were first compiled in 1970, on the basis of information provided each year by enterprises in form 7-TVN (Temporary incapacity for work and occupational injuries). In 1997, a new report form, 1-OT (Occupational safety and health) was introduced, in accordance with Government Ordinance No. 451 of 13 August 1996 aimed at the continual improvement of safety and health at work.

Documentation

Series available:

Information not available.

Bibliographic references:

The statistics are published in:

Department for Statistical and Sociological Research: Statisticheskii Ezhegodnik Respubliki Moldova (annual).

Not all the data are published, but can be made available on request.

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported occupational injuries according to economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; number of work days lost by persons injured with lost workdays.

Confidentiality:

There are no restrictions on the publication of the data.

International standards

The identification and classification of occupational accidents are governed by the Regulations concerning procedures for investigating occupational accidents, approved by Government Ordinance No. 380 of 23 April 1997. International standards are partly taken into account. The statistical report form was submitted to the Department of Statistics for approval by the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (now the State Occupational Safety and Health Inspectorate).

Method of data collection

Type of survey:

Establishment survey.

Data collected:

A standard form is used to collect the information (the statistical report form 1-OT, Occupational safety and health).

Universe of the survey:

The register of enterprises and organizations.

Sampling:

Complete enumeration of establishments with 20 or more employees, and all organizations financed by the State budget.

Field work:

In January each year, forms are completed by employers, on the basis of records maintained in the establishments, and sent to the Department for Statistical and Sociological Research.

Data processing:

The information is directly coded on the report form, and data are entered on the computer data base. Any necessary follow-up is made by telephone.

Estimates:

Not available.

Reliability of the estimates:

The statistics cover about 70 per cent of all persons employed.

Changes planned:

None.