HSA Stats Report 2019 - Health and Safety Authority

Summary of Workplace Injury, Illness and Fatality Statistics

2017 - 2018

2017-2018

Our Vision: Healthy, safe and productive lives and enterprises

Acknowledgements

The results presented in this report come from analysis prepared by Shane Leavy on behalf of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA).We are very grateful to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for the provision of statistical release from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for analysis and for the expertise provided by Sinead Bracken of the labour market statistics division. We would like to thank Dr Sandra Deady of the National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) for the provision of data relating to diagnoses of pleural mesothelioma.We are grateful to Deirdre Kingston of the Irish Cancer Society for the provision of statistical data representing workrelated skin cancer deaths for 2016.

Abbreviations

CSO

Central Statistics Office

ESAW European Statistics on Accidents at Work

ESRI

Economic and Social Research Institute

HSA

Health and Safety Authority

ILO

International Labour Organization

ISCO

International Standard Classification of Occupations

LFS

Labour Force Survey

NACE

Nomenclature statistique des activit?s ?conomiques dans la Communaut? Europ?enne (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community)

NALA

National Adult Literacy Agency

NUTS

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

OIB

Occupational Injury Benefits

QNHS Quarterly National Household Survey

Contents

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

1 Introduction, overview and methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1.1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Changes in this report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2 OVERVIEW FOR 2017?2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Non-fatal injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 HSA figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Central Statistics Office module results - Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Central Statistics Office module results - Illness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fatal injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 European comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3 DATA SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Health and Safety Authority (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Labour Force Survey module on work-related accidents and illness . . . 7 Eurostat statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Occupational Injury Benefit statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Long latency illnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.4 CALCULATING ACCIDENT, ILLNESS AND FATALITY RATES . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Non-fatal injury and illness statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.1 HSA Figures: GENERAL INJURY AND ILLNESS STATISTICS . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 2.1: Injuries reported to the HSA, 2008?2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Victim Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 2.2: Injuries reported by economic sector, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . 12

Figure 2.3: Proportion of reported non-fatal injuries by

employment status, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 2.4: Proportion of reported non-fatal injuries by

nationality, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Accident characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 2.5: Proportion of reported non-fatal injuries by trigger,

2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 2.6: Number and percentage of non-fatal accidents

by trigger, selected sectors, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 2.7: Most injured body parts 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Figure 2.8: Percentage of non-fatal injuries by absence from

work, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Figure 2.9 Reported non-fatal injuries by work environment,

2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Figure 2.10: Reported non-fatal injuries (%) by size of employing

organisation, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Figure 2.11: Number of non-fatal injury reports by county,

2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

2.2 CSO MODULE RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Figure 2.12: Number and rate of people suffering injury and

illness, 2012?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Figure 2.13: Rate of and rolling average for injury and illness

causing 4+ days lost per 1,000 workers,

2010?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Figure 2.14: Rate of injuries (any days lost) per 1,000 workers by

economic sector, 2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Figure 2.15: Rate of 4+ day injuries per 1,000 workers in selected

sectors, 2010?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Figure 2.16: Rate of total injury (0+ days) per 1,000 workers by

gender, 2010?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Figure 2.17: Injury type by gender, 2017 (CSO, LFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Figure 2.18: Rate of illness (any days lost) per 1,000 workers by

economic sector, 2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Figure 2.19: Rank of selected sectors for 0+ day illnesses,

2010?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Figure 2.20: Rate of total illness (0+ days) per 1,000 workers by

gender, 2010?2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Figure 2.21: Illness type by gender, 2017 (CSO, LFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Figure 2.22: Number and rate of injury/illness (0+ days)

per 1,000 workers by economic sector and gender,

2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Figure 2.23: Rates of total injury and total illness (0+ days)

per 1,000 workers by age band, 2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . 34

Figure 2.24: Rates of total injury and total illness (0 + days)

per 1,000 workers by occupation, 2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 2.25: Number and rate of people suffering injury (0+ days)

and illness (0+ days) by region, 2017 (CSO) . . . . . . . . . . 36

International comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Figure 2.26: Rate of 4+ day injuries per 1,000 workers in the

EU15 zone, 2016 (Eurostat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

3 Fatal injury statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Figure 3.1: Rate of worker fatalities per 100,000 workers

1999?2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Figure 3.2: Number of reported fatalities by economic sector

(worker and non-worker), 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Figure 3.3: Number of reported fatalities (worker and non-worker)

by economic sector, 2011?2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Figure 3.4: Rate of reported worker fatalities by economic sector,

2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Figure 3.5: Comparison of fatality rates in selected sectors,

2011?2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Figure 3.6: Percentage of reported fatal injuries by employment

status, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Figure 3.7: Number of reported fatalities (worker and non-worker)

by economic sector and age band, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . 45

Figure 3.8: Number of reported fatalities (worker and non-worker)

by age band, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Figure 3.9: Number of reported worker fatalities by nationality and

economic sector, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Figure 3.10: Reported worker fatality rates (per 100,000 workers)

by nationality, 2011?2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 3.11a: Number of Fatalities (worker and non-worker) by

accident trigger, 2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Figure 3.11b: Land vehicles involved in fatal accidents, 2018 (HSA) . 48

Figure 3.12: Number of reported fatalities (worker and non-worker)

by region, 2011?2018 (HSA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Figure 3.13:Worker fatality rates per 100,000 workers in the

EU15 Zone, 2016 (Eurostat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

4 CSO Employment data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Figure 4.1: Numbers employed in each economic sector,

2012?2018, four-quarter average

(CSO statistical release QLF03, April 2019)1 . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Figure 4.2:Workers by nationality and economic sector, 2018

(CSO statistical release QLF21, July 2019) . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Appendix A ? Updated fatal statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Appendix B ? Technical notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Appendix C ? Classification of economic activities . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

References

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