Macau

Organization responsible for the statistics

Collection and compilation: Direcção de Serviços de Trabalho e Emprego, Gabinete de Estudo e Apoio Técnico (Directorate of Labour and Employment Services, Department of Studies and Technical Support).

The data are not published in Macau.

Periodicity

Up to 1995: annual; from 1996: twice yearly.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted to authorized insurance companies.

Objectives and users

To help prevent the occurrence of occupational accidents.

Major users:

Labour inspectors, occupational safety and health workers, courts.

Coverage

Persons:

All employees.

About 110,000 persons are covered.

Economic activities:

All economic activities; the public sector is excluded.

Geographic areas:

The area of Macau, including the islands of Taipa and Coloane.

Persons injured in occupational accidents outside the country are not covered, in accordance with section 2(2) of Legislative Decree No. 40/95/M of 14 August 1995.

Persons normally resident outside the country who are injured in occupational accidents occurring within Macau are not included.

Establishments:

All types and sizes of establishments.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover reported injuries due to all types of occupational accidents, including commuting accidents.

Statistics of occupational diseases are compiled separately.

Concepts and definitions

(Source: Legislative Decree No. 40/95/M of 14 August 1995)

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: none.

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

Types of information compiled

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

(b) amount of worktime lost;

(c) characteristics of accidents: time and place of accident, cause of accident, consequence of accident;

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

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

Measurement of worktime lost

Worktime lost is measured in calendar days for all occupational injuries except fatal injuries. It is measured from the first day of absence from work.

Temporary absences of less than one day for medical treatment because of an occupational injury are not counted as worktime lost.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability:

temporary or permanent disability;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation;

(e) type of injury:

part of body injured: head, eyes, neck, upper limbs, hands, trunk, lower limbs, feet, general injuries, injuries not known, multiple body parts;

(f) cause of accident:

fall by persons; falling objects; stumbling against objects (excluding falling objects); trapped in or between objects; excessive effort or false movements; exposure to or contact with extreme temperatures; exposure to or contact with electrical currents; exposure to or contact with harmful substances or radiations; other;

(g) duration of absence from work;

(h) characteristics of workers:

sex; age;

(i) characteristics of accidents:

consequences, date; place;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

none.

Crossclassifications:

Reference period

Six months and year.

An injury is included in the statistics for the period in which the accident was reported to the relevant authority.

Worktime lost is included in the statistics for each of the periods in which time was lost.

Estimates

Totals only.

Historical background of the series

The statistics were first compiled in 1986, with the objective of providing workers with the right to care and compensation in respect of occupational accidents.

The legislation which came into force on 1 September 1995 introduced certain changes, in particular regarding coverage and the classification of occupations.

Documentation

Series available:

Information not available.

Bibliographic references:

The data are not published.

Data may be made available on request, on diskette.

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 (including commuting accidents), according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; days lost by persons injured with lost workdays.

Confidentiality:

There are no restrictions on the publication of the data on occupational injuries.

International standards

The international statistical standards and guidelines have been followed.

Workers' and employers' representatives were consulted when the legislation was prepared.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

Decree No. 40/95/M, Order No. 236/95/M and Order 237/95/M of 14 August 1995.

The claim for compensation should be submitted within 24 hours of the accident.

Reporting:

The worker informs the employer, who then reports to the insurance company, or the worker or employer informs the Court or the Labour Inspectorate. A standard form is used for submitting the report to the insurance companies. A copy of the relevant legislation is attached to it.

Data reported:

    The standard accident report form consists of the following:
  1. information about the worker;
  2. information about the employer or place of work;
  3. information about the occupational accident;
  4. information about the occupational injury.

Changes planned:

The compensation scheme was revised in 1995; new legislation came into force on 1 September 1995, with provision that the compensation scheme should be updated every two years.