Swaziland

Organization responsible for the statistics

Department of Labour.

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted to the Department of Labour.

Coverage

Persons:

All persons employed.

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

The whole country.

Establishments:

Not available.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover reported injuries due to occupational accidents, including occupational diseases.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: none.

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

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) economic activity:

agriculture; forestry; construction; government; chemicals, electricity, water and sanitary services; manufacturing; transport or road accidents; engineering; retail and wholesale trade; finance; mines; others;

(c) type of accident:

falling and flying objects, falling persons, machines, hand tools, electricity, chemicals or fire, transport or road accidents, sharp objects, others;

(d) characteristics of accidents:

month;

(e) part of body injured:

head, upper limb, trunk, lower limb.

Reference period

Month and year.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Department of Labour: Annual Report.

Data published by ILO:

The following data are provided regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported injuries (including occupational diseases) according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups.