Collection:
Social Security Organisation (Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial),
Labour Department and Department of Occupational Safety and
Health.
Compilation and publication:
Social Security Organisation, Labour Department and Ministry of
Human Resources.
About 7,000,000 persons are covered by the statistics.
The statistics cover only persons working in the country, including foreign workers.
Commuting accidents are included as from 1992.
a personal injury to an employee caused by accident or an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his employment in an industry to which this Act applies.
an accident happening to an insured person while the insured person -
a condition resulting from an employment injury which requires medical treatment and renders an employee, as a result of such injury, temporarily incapable of doing the work which he was doing prior to or at the time of the injury.
such disablement of a temporary nature as reduces the earning capacity of a workman in any employment in which he was engaged at the time of the accident resulting in his disablement and, where the disablement is of a permanent nature, such disablement as reduces his earning capacity in every employment which he was able to undertake at the time of the accident, provided that every injury specified in Part II of the First Schedule shall be deemed to result in permanent partial disablement. (Source: Workmen's Compensation Act 1952 (Act 273)).
such disablement of a permanent nature as disables an employee for all work which he was capable of performing at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement, provided that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified in Part I of the Second Schedule or from any combination of injuries specified in Part II thereof where the aggregate percentage of the loss of earning capacity, as specified in the said Part II against those injuries, amounts to one hundred per cent or more.
such disablement whether of a temporary or permanent nature as disables a workman for all work which he was capable of undertaking at the time of the accident resulting in such disablement, provided that permanent total disablement shall be deemed to result from every injury specified in Part II of the First Schedule, or from any combination of injuries resulting from a single accident and specified in Part II of the first Schedule where the aggregate of the losses of earning capacity specified in the said Schedule against these injuries amounts to or exceeds one hundred per cent. (Source: Workmen's Compensation Act 1953 (Act 273)).
Minimum period of absence from work:
four days, including the day of the accident.
Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury:
none.
(a) personal characteristics of persons injured:
sex, age;
(b) amount of worktime lost;
(c) characteristics of accidents:
time of day, day of week, agency of injury, type of accident,
location and total number of persons injured;
(d) characteristics of injuries:
part of body injured, type of injury, type of illness, extent of
disability;
(e) characteristics of employers or workplaces:
location, economic activity.
Temporary absences of less than one day for medical treatment because of an occupational injury are not counted as worktime lost.
(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;
(d) occupation;
location of injury
: head (eight groups); neck; trunk (six
groups); upper limb (nine groups); multiple locations (five groups);
lower limb (nine groups); general injuries (six groups);
unspecified location of injuries;
type of injury
: fracture; dislocation; sprain or strain;
concussions and other internal injuries; amputations and
enucleations; other wounds; superficial injuries; contusions and
crushings; burns; acute poisonings; effect of weather, exposure
and related conditions; asphyxia; effects of electric currents;
effects of radiations; multiple injuries of different nature;
other unspecified injuries;
type of disease
: intestinal infectious diseases;
tuberculosis; other bacterial diseases; viral diseases;
rickettsioses and other arthropod-borne diseases; venereal
diseases; other infectious and parasitic diseases and late
effects of infectious and parasitic diseases; malignant neoplasm
of lip, cavity and pharynx; malignant neoplasm of digestive
organs and peritoneum; malignant neoplasm of respiratory and
intrathoracic organs; malignant neoplasm of bone, connective skin
and breast; malignant neoplasm of genitourinary organs; malignant
neoplasm of other and unspecified sites; malignant neoplasm of
lymphatic and haemopoietic tissue; benign neoplasm; carcinoma in
situ; other and unspecified neoplasm; endocrine and metabolic
diseases; immunity disorders; nutritional deficiencies; diseases
of blood and blood forming organs; mental disorders; disease of
nervous system; diseases of other paralytic syndromes; disorders
of the eye and adnexa; disorders of the ear and mastoid process;
rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart diseases; hypertensive
diseases; ischaemic heart diseases; diseases of pulmonary
circulation and others; cerebro-vascular disease; other diseases
of the circulatory system; diseases of the upper respiratory
tract; other diseases of the respiratory system; diseases of
other parts of the digestive system; diseases of the
musculoskeletal system and connective tissues; fractures;
intracranial and internal injuries, including nerves; open wounds
and injury to blood vessels; poisonings and toxic effects;
transport accidents; suicide and self-inflicted injury; homicide
and injury purposely inflicted by other persons; old age; other
violence;
agent causing disease
: diseases caused by agents (diseases
caused by chemical agent - 32 groups; diseases caused by physical
agents - eight groups; biological agents); diseases by target
organ systems (occupational respiratory diseases - ten groups;
occupational skin diseases - two groups; occupational
musculo-skeletal disorders); occupational cancer (15 groups of
agents); others (miners' nystagmus);
(f) cause of accident;
(g) duration of absence from work;
type of accident
: fall of persons (two groups); struck by
falling objects (four groups); stepping on, striking against or
struck by objects (four groups); caught in or between objects
(three groups); over-exertion or strenuous movements (four
groups); exposure to or contact with extreme temperatures (four
groups); exposure to or contact with electricity; exposure to or
contact with harmful substances or radiations (three groups);
other types of accidents not elsewhere classified (two groups);
agency causing the accident
: according to the classification
recommended in the Tenth ICLS resolution;
An occupational injury is included in the statistics for the period (year) in which the report or claim regarding the injury was submitted to the relevant authority.
The amount of worktime lost is included in the statistics for each of the periods (years) in which worktime lost.
Percentage distribution of persons injured.
Types of rates:
Under the Factories and Machinery Act, the compilation of accident statistics was limited to accidents occurring in manufacturing, construction and mining. Since 1994, all economic activities have been covered under the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994.
Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial (Social
Security Organisation): Laporan Tahunan (Annual Report)
.
Ministry of Human Resources: Labour and Human Resources
Statistics
(annual).
These publications contain some methodological information.
Not all the data are published; certain confidential information cannot be published. Unpublished data may be made available, in printed form only.
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to compensated injuries (including occupational diseases and commuting accidents from 1992 onwards): number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups. Up to 1993, these were classified according to major division of economic activity. From 1994 onwards, only the total number of persons injured has been classified according to economic activity. Also from 1994, data have been supplied on the number of workdays lost by persons injured with lost workdays, and on rates of fatal injuries, for all activities together only. The number of persons at risk (total number of persons insured, all activities together only) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.
All occupational injuries should be reported to the Department of Occupational Safety and Health and the Social Security Organisation. The Factories and Machinery Act specifies that this should be carried out by the quickest means possible. No time limit is laid down in the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
The following types of information are included in the form:
The Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) and the Ministry of Human Resources are currently finalizing a set of regulations developed under the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 on the reporting of occupational accidents and diseases, based on the reporting arrangements used by the RIDDOR regulations in force in the United Kingdom and the OSHA system in force in the United States. The new regulations are expected to be introduced in 1998.