Ukraine

Organization responsible for the statistics

Periodicity

Source

Objectives and users

Major users:

Coverage

Workers:

Economic activities:

Geographic areas:

Persons working outside the country are covered if the work is performed under the management of officials from a Ukrainian enterprise.

Persons normally resident outside the country who are involved in accidents in the Ukraine are covered if the work is performed under the management of officials from a Ukrainian enterprise.

Establishments:

Types of occupational accidents covered

• on the way between work and home, on foot or by public or private transport;
• during meal breaks when occupational risk factors are absent;
• as a result of alcohol or narcotic poisoning or their effects, provided this is not caused by the use of such substances for professional purposes or by their incorrect storage or transportation;
• as a result of suicide, death by natural causes or a crime committed by the person injured.

Commuting accidents are included only if the means of transport belongs to the enterprise or is hired by it, or is the worker's own vehicle which is used for professional purposes.

Concepts and definitions

Occupational accident:

an accident occurring within or outside the premises of the enterprise while the injured worker was performing his duties or carrying out assignments or instructions given by the management of the enterprise or the person supervising the work, or an accident occurring on transportation provided by the enterprise to and from work, which resulted in temporary or permanent incapacity to work or the worker's death. Traffic accidents that are related to work are also included. The accident may occur during normal working hours, including prescribed breaks, as well as during overtime or on weekly rest days or holidays.

Occupational injuries:

those sustained as a result of occupational accidents, including acute poisoning; heatstroke; burns; frostbite; drowning; electrocution; being struck by lightening; ionizing radiation; insect and reptile bites; injuries afflicted by animals; injuries sustained as a result of explosions, wrecks, collapsing buildings and structures, natural disasters and other emergencies.

Fatal occupational injuries:

injuries causing death immediately following the occupational accident or some time later during the reference year.

Worktime lost:

the workdays during which the worker was incapacity as a result of an occupational injury certified by special medical documents (certificates of incapacity and certificates issued by health-care establishments).

Minimum period of absence from work: one day.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: four months.

Types of information compiled

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

(b) amount of worktime lost: number of workdays lost due to incapacity to work;

(c) characteristics of accidents: type of accident; cause of accident;

(d) characteristics of injuries: none;

(e) characteristics of employers or workplaces: region.

Measurement of worktime lost

It is measured as follows:

• for temporary incapacity to work: according to the information provided by the medical establishment;
• for fatal injuries: from the day of the accident to the time of death.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability:

(c) economic activity:

(d) occupation:

(e) type of injury;

(f) cause of accident;

(g) duration of absence from work:

(h) characteristics of workers:

(i) characteristics of accidents:

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

(k) other:

• ministry and department, according to the System of designation of State authorities;
• province (oblast).

Crossclassifications:

• economic activity;
• form of ownership;
• ministry and department;
• region.

Reference period

A non-fatal injury is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the accident occurred.

A fatal injury is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the accident occurred only if the death occurred in that same year; in this case, the injured worker is included in both the total number of persons injured and in the number of fatal injuries. If during the reference year a worker dies as a result of an accident that occurred in the previous year, the person is included only in the figures for fatal injuries.

Worktime lost is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the accident occurred. Any days of temporary incapacity during the year following that of the accident are included in the data for the year of the accident.

Estimates

Total number of persons injured.

Total amount of worktime lost.

Distribution of persons injured.

Rates of injuries per 1,000 employees.

Historical background of the series

Changes have been introduced when necessary. In particular, in 1994, information on the amount of compensation awarded for occupational injuries was added to the reporting requirements. In addition, the classifications by type of accident, factors and causes of occupational accidents were revised.

Documentation

Series available:

Number of persons injured according to cause of accident, type of injury and sex, by economic activity, form of ownership, ministry and department and region.

Bibliographic references:

Ministry of Statistics: Ukrainian Statistical Yearbook (until 1994, the National Economy of the Ukrainian Yearbook).

Methodological notes are included in this publication.

Not all the data are published. Additional series may be made available on request, in printed form or on diskette.

Data published by ILO:

Confidentiality:

International standards

The international statistical standards and guidelines were taken into account as far as possible.

The Ministry of Statistics examines all proposals aimed at improving its methods for compiling statistics.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

The basis of the system for statistics of occupational injuries is the annual reporting by enterprises, organizations and institutions, which takes place once a year.

The investigation and notification of occupational accidents in enterprises are the responsibility of the enterprise owner or another authorized body.

The requirement for notification covers accidents occurring:

• during the fulfilment of employment duties (including during business trips) and also activities on behalf of the enterprise not ordered by the owner;
• at the place of work on the premises of an enterprise or in another place of work during working hours, including official breaks;
• during time spent on maintenance of machinery, safety equipment and clothing either before or after work, and also on personal hygiene;
• during the journey to and from work by a means of transport belonging to the enterprise or other organization which has provided it on the basis of an agreement, and also private transport used for professional purposes;
• during breakdowns (fires, etc.) and their elimination at the worksite;
• during periods of assistance provided to another enterprise;
• on a means of transport, at a transport depot, a ship's port of call or a lookout point together with employees on shift leave (e.g. a guard, member of a ship's crew, relief driver, employees of maritime and river vessels, and those on special watch duty;
• during a journey in working hours on foot, on public or private transport, or on transport belonging to the enterprise or another organization where the employee's work involves travelling between different sites;
• during a journey on foot or by a means of transport to the place of work or back again for a particular task allocated by the enterprise without the need for business-trip authorization.

Reporting:

A report is made each year including the information collected during the investigation.

The owner of an enterprise should also notify immediately the following of all accidents involving more than one person and all fatal accidents: the appropriate local authority of the State Labour Protection, a sanitary and epidemiological unit in cases of acute occupational disease (poisoning), the local State executive authority, the enterprise trade union and the Public Prosecutor's Office under whose jurisdiction the enterprise falls.

If the accident occurred in a State-owned enterprise, the enterprise manager should also notify the ministry or another body with overall responsibility for the enterprise.

Accidents in which a person is killed or injured at work by another person should also be investigated.

The Investigation Commission decides whether an accident should be recorded as an occupational accident only if an official opinion established by authorized bodies is available, i.e. judicial and medical experts.

Cases involving the disappearance of an employee (crew or team member, driver or other person using a means of transport during professional duties) are investigated.

Within 72 hours of the accident occurring, the Investigation Commission must inspect the place where the accident occurred, question witnesses and those involved in the accident and where possible seek an explanation from the injured person. It should complete five original copies of a standard form (Form N-1), which are then sent to the enterprise owner for approval. The details of the accident officially recorded in the form are recorded in a special enterprise register.

Within 24 hours of the end of the investigation, the enterprise owner approves the five original copies of Form N-1, which are sent to (a) the injured person or a person representing his interests; (b) the head of the unit or other structural subdivision where the accident occurred, with a view to taking measures to prevent similar cases from recurring; (c) the State Labour Protectorate; (d) the trade union representing the enterprise where the accident occurred; and (e) the head of the enterprise's labour protection service who receives the form together with other material from the investigation (the registration certificate, diagrams, photographs and other documents pertaining to the condition of the workplace (equipment, machinery, etc.), with an indication of the dangerous and harmful production factors and a medical statement on the presence, if any, of alcohol in the injured person's system).

Form N-1 and the material from the investigation must be retained by the enterprise for 45 years. At the end of a temporary period of incapacity to work, the head of the structural subdivision where the accident occurred completes the questions on Form N-1 on the consequences of the accident, and sends the report to the organizations and officials to whom Form N-1 was previously sent.

The case of an accident involving a worker from a different enterprise occurring during the fulfilment of his professional duties is investigated where the accident occurred. The Investigation Committee includes a representative of the enterprise employing the injured person, which records the accident.

Data reported:

1. information about the employer: name of enterprise owner, name of enterprise, address, section, site or place where the accident occurred, name and address of enterprise seconding the employee;
2. information about the injured person: name, sex, age, occupation, length of service in the enterprise; length of service in the occupation; date of training in safety at work (introductory training, training for the occupation in which the accident occurred, any further training; testing of skills for high-risk work);
3. information about the accident: date and time; number of full hours since the shift started; circumstances in which the accident occurred (type of occurrence, harmful factor and concentration, causes (equipment: name, type, make, year of manufacture, name of manufacturer; presence of alcohol or narcotic substances in injured person's system); measures taken to eradicate causes of accident (number, details of measure, period of implementation, person responsible, comments);
4. other information: employees infringing rules and other standards on safety at work; enterprise employing person responsible; guilty party (enterprise, injured person, other enterprise, other individuals); witnesses;
5. medical information: name of medical establishment treating the person; diagnosis based on disability register or medical certificate; consequences of accident (injured person transferred to light work, recovered, category 1, 2 or 3 disability, deceased);
6. expenditure associated with the accident: period for which light work carried out (before certificate of incapacity for work issued), total supplement paid in addition to previous wage; period of temporary incapacity to work and total compensation paid from social insurance fund; period of lighter work prescribed by medical establishment following temporary incapacity and total supplement paid in addition to previous wage; total compensation from social insurance fund for payment of one-off benefit to injured person; total fine paid by enterprise for accident; total compensation paid to medical establishment for treatment of injured person; cost of damaged equipment, machinery, buildings or installations destroyed; other expenditure (total monthly compensation paid by the enterprise to the social insurance fund to cover expenditure on the injured person's wage or its contribution thereto, and also expenditure on medical and social assistance; and to the pension fund to cover expenditure on the pension paid to the injured person); total expenditure.

Changes planned:

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