St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Organization responsible for the statistics

Department of Labour.

Periodicity

Annual.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted by employers to the Department of Labour.

Objectives and users

To ascertain the number of accidents occurring on the job.

Major users:

Department of Labour.

Coverage

Persons:

Paid employees, i.e. any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, and whether the contract is expressed or implied, is oral or in writing, and includes a person who is a member of a registered cooperative society and engaged in work carried out by that cooperative society notwithstanding that such person is remunerated in whole or in part by shares in the profits or gross earnings of such cooperative society, but does not include (a) an outworker; (b) a person whose employment is of a casual nature and who is employed otherwise than for the purposes of the employer's trade, occupation or business; or (c) a domestic servant employed in a private house. (Source: Accidents and Occupational Diseases (Notification) Act, 1952).

Economic activities:

All branches of economic activity and sectors, except the police and the armed forces. (Source: Accidents and Occupational Diseases (Notification) Act, 1952).

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Persons working outside the country or normally resident outside the country are not covered.

Establishments:

All types and sizes of establishments.

Types of occupational accidents covered

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

Commuting accidents are not included.

Statistics on occupational diseases are compiled separately.

Concepts and definitions

(Source: Accidents and Occupational Diseases (Notification) Act).

Occupational injury:

any accident arising out of and in the course of employment of any worker and:

causing loss of life to such worker; or
disables such worker for more than three days from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed at the time of such accident or, in the case of a worker who is a member of and employed by a registered cooperative society and who does not work for wages but is remunerated in whole or in part by shares in the profits or gross earnings of the cooperative society, disables such a workers for more than three days from performing the work at which he was employed at the time of such accident.

Minimum period of absence from work: four days.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: none.

Types of information compiled

(a) personal characteristics of persons injured: sex;

(b) amount of worktime lost: not applicable;

(d) characteristics of injuries: not applicable;

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

Measurement of worktime lost

Worktime lost is measured in workdays, for temporary incapacity to work only. Temporary absences for medical treatment are not included.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents:

none;

(b) extent of disability:

none;

(c) economic activity;

(d) occupation:

none;

(e) type of injury:

none;

(f) cause of accident;

(g) duration of absence from work:

none;

(h) characteristics of workers:

sex;

(i) characteristics of accidents:

none;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

none.

Crossclassifications:

none.

Reference period

Year.

An injury is counted in the period (year) in which it occurred.

Worktime lost is counted in each of the periods (years) in which it was lost.

Estimates

Total number of persons injured.

No rates are calculated.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available:

The data have not been published since 1990.

Bibliographic references:

Up to 1990, the data were published in:

Department of Labour: Labour Market Information.

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 major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups.

Confidentiality:

There are no restrictions on the publication or release of the data.

International standards

Not available.

Method of data collection

Legislation:

Accidents and Occupational Diseases (Notification) Act, 1952.

The employer is required to provide written notice of all occupational accidents causing loss of life or incapacity to work for more than three days to the Labour Commissioner within seven days of the accident. If any accident causing disablement has been notified and after the notification the victim dies as a result of the accident, notice in writing is sent by the employer to the Labour Commissioner as soon as the death comes to the knowledge of the employer.

Reporting:

The notification of the accident is sent on a standard form, called the First Schedule, Accidents and Occupational Diseases (Notification) Ordinance 1952, Notice of Accident on Dangerous Occurrence, to the Labour Commissioner.

Data reported:

The First Schedule provides for the following information:

information about the employer: name; address; nature of industry, occupation or business; branch of department and exact place where the accident occurred;
information about the injured person: name, address, sex, age at last birthday, precise occupation;
information about the accident: date and hour; hour at which the injured person began work on the day of the accident; cause or nature of accident; if caused by machinery, name of machine and part causing the accident, and whether the machine was moved by mechanical power at the time of the accident;
information about the injury: nature, location and extent of injury; whether the person was disabled for more than three days from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed at the time of the accident.

Changes planned:

None.