Tunisia
Organization responsible for the statistics
Inspection du Travail (Labour Inspectorate)
and the Caisse nationale de sécurité sociale
(National Social Security Fund)
;
beginning in 1995: only the Caisse nationale de
sécurité sociale.
Source
Labour inspectorate records; beginning in 1995: Occupational
accident reports submitted to the Caisse nationale de sécurité
sociale.
Coverage
Persons:
All workers or related persons employed by natural persons or
legal entities under any arrangement, in any capacity, and
regardless of the worker's status or type of remuneration. The
following categories are included: trainees; apprentices;
students enrolled at technical or vocational training
establishments, regardless of the studentsk specialization or
level, provided the work accident is directly related to the
instruction or training programmes; prisoners involved in
accidents that arise out of or in connection with the regular use
of penitentiary labour; workers engaged at national or regional
development worksites; domestic workers. Owners of family
enterprises and members of their family are excluded.
Economic activities:
All economic activities, excluding the public sector.
Geographic areas:
The whole country.
Establishments:
Family enterprises employing only the owner and members of his or
her family are excluded.
Types of occupational accidents covered
Reported injuries due to all types of occupational accidents.
Concepts and definitions
(Source: The Act of 21 February 1994 concerning the compensation
scheme for damages resulting from occupational accidents and
occupational diseases).
Occupational accident:
regardless of its cause or where it occurred, the accident
arising out of or in connection with work sustained by any worker
while on duty for one or more employers. Occupational accidents
shall also be understood to include those sustained by workers
while travelling between the workplace and home, provided the
journey was not interrupted or modified for personal reasons or
for reasons not related to the worker's occupational activity.
Occupational disease:
any manifestation of disease, microbial infection or affection
whose origin is presumed to be attributable to the victim's
occupational activity. The list of diseases presumed to be of
occupational origin, as well as the list of the main jobs in
which these are likely to originate, is determined by joint order
of the ministers of Public Health and Social Affairs.
Minimum period of absence from work:
Four 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, relating to reported occupational injuries
(including commuting accidents until 1994) according to
major division of economic activity, are furnished to the ILO for
publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics
: number of
persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost
workdays, total of these two groups; number of workdays lost by
persons injured with lost workdays; rates of fatal injuries. The
number of persons at risk (total number of paid employees) is
also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.