Myanmar

Organization responsible for the statistics

Factories and general Labour Laws Inspection Department, Ministry of Labour.

Source

Labour inspectorate records.

Coverage

Persons:

Persons employed.

Economic activities:

Manufacturing.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

Establishments with ten or more workers and using power, and those not using power with twenty or more workers.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Reported injuries.

Types of information compiled

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

(b) amount of worktime lost;

(c) characteristics of accidents: date, type;

(d) characteristics of injuries: nature, location, agency;

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

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: two days.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

Not available.

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 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.

Additional information

Information on occupational injuries in other branches of economic activity are collected by other ministries, but the data are not coordinated.