Azerbaijan

Organization responsible for the statistics

State Statistical Committee (GOSKOMSTAT) of the Azerbaijani Republic.

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted by enterprises to the Labour Inspectorate, which forwards the information to the State Statistical Committee.

Objectives and users

To reflect the situation with regard occupational injuries.

Major users:

administrative and executive authorities, ministries and departments.

Coverage

Workers:

All workers, including temporary or seasonal workers, non regular workers, trainees and students receiving practical training or carrying out work in enterprises.

Economic activities:

Not available.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Persons working outside the country are not covered by the statistics.

Establishments:

All enterprises, associations, directorates, organizations, cooperatives, agricultural undertakings, farm units and other economic units with independent budgets, as well as military units and military sections of enterprises.

Types of occupational accidents covered

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

Occupational diseases and commuting accidents are not included.

Concepts and definitions

Occupational accident:

All accidents that occur:

when work-related duties are carried out (including those when a worker is on detachments), and whenever any action is taken in the interest of the enterprise, even if there have been no instructions from management;
when a worker is on the way to or from work using the enterprise's own means of transport or those of another organization which has made them available under the terms of a contract;
on the territory of the enterprise or at another place of work during work time, including established rest breaks; or during time required to prepare and maintain equipment or clothing, etc. belonging to the enterprise; or before the start of work or after the end of working hours;
when there are technical breakdowns at enterprise facilities and installations;
on means of transport or on the territory of a shift settlement (a settlement staffed by workers on tours of duty, for example at oil pumping stations in inhospitable areas), to a worker who is on shift break (guards, refrigeration brigade workers, relief drivers, workers on ocean-going and river vessels, workers sent out on tours of duty at remote sites, etc.);
during work time when a worker is proceeding on public transport or on foot between sites, or on the way to the place of work following the instructions of the employer;
during work time on private transport, provided that the employer has given written permission to use this for official purposes;
during work time, in the event of the deliberate murder of or infliction of bodily harm on a worker in the performance of his/her duties.

Minimum period of absence from work: one day, or if it necessary according to a medical practitioner to transfer the worker to different duties for one day or more.

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

Types of information compiled

(a) personal characteristics of workers injured: sex, adult/juvenile (under/over 18 years);

(b) amount of worktime lost;

(d) characteristics of injuries: fatal, permanent incapacity, temporary incapacity;

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

Measurement of worktime lost

The amount of worktime lost is measured in workdays (excluding rest days and public holidays), on the basis of sick notes or certificates issued by establishments providing treatment, as days of absence from work on quarantine or on leave for treatment at a sanatorium or spa.

All days of temporary incapacity to work due to an occupational injury are included in the statistics for the current reference period (year), if they extend from the previous year.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability:

temporary or permanent incapacity;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation:

none;

(e) type of injury:

none;

(f) cause of accident:

none;

(g) duration of absence from work:

not available;

(h) characteristics of workers:

not available;

(i) characteristics of accidents:

not available;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

not available.

Crossclassifications:

none.

Reference period

Not available.

Estimates

Not available.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Not available.

Series available:

information not available.

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 economic activity: 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.

Confidentiality:

not available.

International standards

Not available.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

Regulations on the investigation and recording of industrial accidents, approved by Order No. 157 of 23 March 1993.

Reporting:

The enterprise manager is required to notify the labour inspectorate of all occupational accidents as defined above. A standard form is completed, of which a copy is sent to each of the following: the victim, the victim's supervisor, the chief of the occupational safety and health section in the enterprise and the labour inspector.

Data reported:

The form for notification consists of the following:

information about the enterprise where the accident occurred: name, address, ministry, department;
information about the enterprise that supplied the injured person: name, address, ministry, department;
information about the person injured: name, sex, age on last birthday, occupation and post, rank and grade, length of service performing the work carried out when the accident happened, occupational safety briefing or training (introductory briefing, vocational training, repeat briefing, test of knowledge - including relevant dates);
information about the accident: date and time, number of hours on duty before the accident; circumstances of the accident; causes of the accident;
measures taken to remove the causes of the accident;
persons having violated labour legislation and occupational safety and health rules; enterprise to which these persons belong;
information about witnesses of the accident;
consequences of the accident:
- in the event of transfer, duration of assignment to less demanding work; amount of additional payment to raise remuneration to former level;
- diagnosis of incapacity for work: dates of incapacity, duration of incapacity in workdays, amounts paid on the basis of a certificate of incapacity for work;
- outcome of the accident (victim transferred to less demanding work, recovered, declared disables at the first, second or third degree, deceased);
- cost of damaged equipment and instruments;
- cost of buildings and structures destroyed;
- total cost of damages noted above.

Changes planned:

not available.