Isle of Man

Organization responsible for the statistics

Health and Safety Inspectorate, Isle of Man Department of Local Government and the Environment.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted under the Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 1985 (UK) as applied to the Isle of Man.

Coverage

Persons:

Employees (including trainees), self-employed persons, and members of the public injured as a result of someone else's work activity. (The data supplied to the ILO for publication relate to employees only.)

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors, excluding sea fishing and incidents reported under merchant shipping legislation, and air transport.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

All sizes and types of establishments.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover reported injuries due to all types of accidents arising out of or in connection with work, excluding road traffic accidents, which should be reported to the police.

Statistics of occupational diseases are compiled and published separately.

Commuting accidents are not included.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: four days.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: one year.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Health and Safety Inspectorate: Annual report.

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 for all economic activities together: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups.