Croatian Institute of Public Health

Department for occupational health

R.Cimermana 64a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

At national level all accidents are included (commuting and less than 3 days absence).

Harmonised data on accidents at work are collected in the framework of the administrative data collection 'European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW)', on the basis of a methodology developed first in 1990.

An accident at work is defined as 'a discrete occurrence in the course of work which leads to physical or mental harm'. The data include only fatal and non-fatal accidents involving more than 3 calendar days of absence from work. If the accident does not lead to the death of the victim it is called a 'non-fatal' (or 'serious') accident.

A fatal accident at work is defined as an accident which leads to the death of a victim within one year of the accident.

The variables collected on accidents at work include:

- Economic activity of the employer and size of the enterprise
- Employment status, occupation, age, sex and nationality of victim
- Geographical location, date and time of the accident
- Type of injury, body part injured and the severity of the accident (number of full calendar days during which the victim is unfit for work excluding the day of the accident, permanent incapacity or death within one year of the accident).
- Variables on causes and circumstances of the accident: workstation, working environment, working process, specific physical activity, material agent of the specific physical activity, deviation and material agent of deviation, contact - mode of injury and material agent of contact - mode of injury.

In Croatia accidents at work are reported to the Croatian Institute of Public Health.

The data is presented in form of numbers, percentages, incidence rates and standardised incidence rates of non-fatal and fatal accidents at work, either for EU aggregates, countries or certain breakdowns by dimensions such as age, sex etc.

- Numbers correspond to a simple count of all non-fatal and fatal accidents for the entirety or certain breakdowns of the data;
- Percentages represent shares of breakdowns;
- The incidence rate of non-fatal or fatal accidents at work is the number of serious or fatal accidents per 100,000 persons in employment;
- The standardised incidence rates of non-fatal or fatal accidents at work aim to eliminate differences in the structures of countries' economies (see section 18.6 Adjustment for more details).

The incidence rate indicates the relative importance of non-fatal or fatal accidents at work in the working population. For both types of accidents at work the numerator is the number of accidents that occurred during the year. The denominator is the reference population (i.e. the number of persons in employment) expressed in 100,000 persons.

The reference population (or number of persons in employment) related to the national ESAW reporting system is provided by the Member States, either from administrative sources related to accidents at work or from the EU Labour Force Survey (LFS) (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lfs/overview).

The following classifications are used in ESAW:

NACE Rev. 2: 2nd revision of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community managed by Eurostat. For ESAW data NACE Rev. 2 is used from reference year 2008 onwards;
ISCO-08: International Standard Classification of Occupations managed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (revision of 2008). ISCO-08 should be used from reference year 2011 onwards (not all countries use it yet);
NUTS 2021: Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics. The current NUTS 2021 classification is valid from 1 January 2021, though many datasets will still include other NUTS versions.
ICSE-93: International Classification by Status in Employment (revision of 1993)

For full details on these classifications, please see our nomenclature server Ramon (https://showvoc.op.europa.eu/#/datasets).

All economic sectors A - S according to NACE Rev. 2 should in principle be covered from reference year 2013 onwards. Before the reference year 2013, there was no obligation to cover sectors outside the so-called 'common branches' A and C – N. However, most Member States covered those non-common sectors C and O – S as well as T and U before on a voluntary basis.

The NACE sectors are (all branches, at one digit level):
A AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHING
B MINING AND QUARRYING
C MANUFACTURING
D ELECTRICITY, GAS, STEAM AND AIR CONDITIONING SUPPLY
E WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE, WASTE MANAGEMENT AND REMEDIATION ACTIVITIES
F CONSTRUCTION
G WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE; REPAIR OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND MOTORCYCLES
H TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE
I ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD SERVICE ACTIVITIES
J INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
K FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE ACTIVITIES
L REAL ESTATE ACTIVITIES
M PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES
N ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICE ACTIVITIES
O PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEFENCE; COMPULSORY SOCIAL SECURITY
P EDUCATION
Q HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK ACTIVITIES
R ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATION
S OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES
T ACTIVITIES OF HOUSEHOLDS AS EMPLOYERS; U0NDIFFERENTIATED GOODS- AND SERVICES-PRODUCING ACTIVITIES OF HOUSEHOLDS FOR OWN USE
U ACTIVITIES OF EXTRATERRITORIAL ORGANISATIONS AND BODIES

Data delivery for sectors T and U is voluntary.

Some sectors and professions are subject to confidentiality rules. According to the ESAW implementing Regulation 349/2011 (annex II), Member States deliver the following NACE Rev. 2 divisions of sector O on a voluntary basis only:
84.22 Defence activities
84.23 Justice and judicial activities
84.24 Public order and safety activities
84.25 Fire services activities

Section '3.6. Statistical population' below gives information about professions (occupations) subject to confidentiality exceptions.

On the Eurostat website, the data tables published in section 'Main indicators' (hsw_mi) cover the 13 common branches A, C-N only.

In the section 'Details by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2, 2008 onwards) (hsw_n2) some data are presented at 1 and 2 digit level of NACE Rev.2 classification.

The ESAW implementing Regulation (see section 5.2 Quality assessment) requires that Member States send data on accidents of 'employees'. Data on accidents of self-employed, family workers and other employment types are voluntary.

The metadata annex to this file contains, besides other information, a detailed overview about which Member State covers which economic sectors and employment types.

COVERAGE OF ECONOMIC SECTORS (NACE), (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of economic sectors

Codes:

y Sector fully covered
n Sector not covered at all
p Secor partially covered
n.a. Not applicable, i.e. sector does not exist in country

At national level all accidents are included (commuting and less than 3 days absence).

European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) are based on case-by-case data for accidents at work resulting in more than 3 days' absence from work, permanent incapacity or death of the victim.

An accident at work is 'a discrete occurrence in the course of work which leads to physical or mental harm'.

- This includes all accidents in the course of work, whether they happen inside or outside the premises of the employer, on the premises of another employer, in public places or during transport (including road traffic accidents or accidents in any other mean of transportation) and at home (such as during teleworking). It also includes cases of acute poisoning and wilful acts of other persons;
- It excludes: accidents on the way to or from work (commuting accidents); deliberate self-inflicted injuries; occurrences caused solely by a medical condition (such as heart attack or stroke) that occurred during work, i.e. which were not (at least partially) caused by the occupational activity of the victim;; accidents to members of the public, for example family members of a worker who are not working; and occupational diseases.

A fatal accident at work is defined as an accident which leads to the death of a victim within one year of the accident. In practice the notification of an accident as fatal ranges from national registration procedures where the accident is registered as fatal when the victim dies during the same day (Netherlands) or within 30 days after the accident (Germany) to cases where no time limits are laid down (Belgium, Greece, France except for deaths occurring after the recognition of a permanent disability, Italy, Luxemburg, Austria, Sweden and Norway). For the other Member States the time limit is one year, except for Spain where the limit is 1,5 years after the date of the accident.

In a typical fatal accident at work, the death occurs within a few days after the day of the accident and the limitation to the day of the accident would result already in a significant underestimation of such very severe accidents.

The ESAW methodology is in accordance with the ILO (International Labour Office) "Resolution concerning statistics of occupational injuries (resulting from occupational accidents)" adopted by the Sixteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians in October 1998.

The following 15 phase I and II variables have to be sent by Member States to Eurostat from reference year 2011 onwards on an annual basis:
1. Case number
2. Economic activity of the employer (NACE)
3. Occupation of Victim (ISCO)
4. Age of Victim
5. Sex of Victim
6. Type of Injury
7. Part of Body Injured
8. Geographical Location of the Accident
9. Date of the Accident
10. Time of the Accident (optional)
11. Size of the Enterprise (optional)
12. Nationality of the Victim (optional)
13. Employment Status of the Victim
14. Days Lost (severity)
15. Weight ESAW collection

In addition, three of the following nine phase III variables on 'causes and circumstances of the accident' have to be sent annually to Eurostat from reference year 2013 onwards:
16. - 18. Workstation, Working Environment, Working Process
19. - 20. Specific Physical Activity, Material Agent associated with the of Specific Physical Activity
21. - 22. Deviation, Material Agent associated with the Deviation
23. - 24. Contact - mode of injury, Material Agent associated with the Contact - Mode of injury.

Finally, the weight on Causes and Circumstances has to be sent if the Member State applies an additional sampling for the encoding of the ESAW Phase III variables on causes and circumstances. If not applicable the default value is 1.

The definition of the variables is stated in the Commission Regulation (EU) No 349/2011 and further specified in the ESAW methodology.

COVERAGE OF ESAW VARIABLES (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of ESAW variables

Codes:

Coverage
y Variable fully covered
n Variable not covered at all, i.e. variable is so far not collected in country
p Variable partially covered

Days lost
y num Days lost are covered and in data file listed by numbers (004 - 182)
y cat Days lost are covered and in data file listed by categories (A01 - A06)
p num, p cat Days lost are partly covered and listed by numbers (categories)

Type of weight
U weight to correct under-reporting
S weight to account for sampling
Sp weight to correct special sampling

Data are collected for each accident.

If a person is a victim of more than one accident during the reference year, several cases are reported (one for each accident).

If there are several victims in the same event of accident, also several cases are reported (one for each victim).

All employees including self-employed.

COVERAGE OF PROFESSIONAL STATUS (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of professionnal status

Codes:

y Professional status fully covered
n Professional status not covered at all
p Professional status partially covered
n.a. Not applicable, i.e. professional status does not exist in country

COVERAGE OF ACCIDENTS OUTSIDE PREMISES (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of accidents outside premises

Codes:

y Accidents fully covered
n Accidents not covered at all
p Accidents partially covered
F Data of fatal road traffic accidents and fatal accidents on board of any means of transport provided in the main CSV data file
A Data of fatal and non-fatal road traffic accidents as well as fatal and non-fatal accidents on board of any means of transport provided in the main CSV data file

Country and county level (21 counties)

Data are available since reference year 1994 for all EU-15 Member States, from 1995 also for Norway.

In addition, Croatian data are included since 2010.

Data for Switzerland was added from 2004 and Icelandic data from 2012.

Not applicable.

The following measurement units are used in ESAW data:

- Numbers of accidents

- Percentages of accidents (in relation to different totals and breakdowns)

- Incidence rates of accidents: number of accidents per 100,000 workers

Reference year 2021

National:

The Annual Implementation Plan of Statistical Activities:
http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv/about_us/Legals/provedbeni%20plan%20statistickih%20aktivnosti%202014.pdf

Not applicable.

Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No 25/2020 – consolidated text)

Official Statistics Act (Official Gazette, No 25/2020 – consolidated text)

30.6. in year N+1

The Annual Implementation Plan of Statistical Activities
http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv/about_us/Legals/provedbeni%20plan%20statistickih%20aktivnosti%202014.pdf

In line with THE OFFICIAL STATISTICS ACT (http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/about_us/Legals/Official_Statistics_Act_2013.pdf) and ORDINANCE ON THE ACCESS TO CONFIDENTIAL STATISTICAL DATA, The involvement of users, science and broader public in the official statistics activities is ensured by forming of the Statistics Council of the Republic of Croatia as an advisory and professional body for strategic issues concerning official statistics of the Republic of Croatia. (http://www.dzs.hr/Eng/about_us/Legals/Ordinance%20on%20the%20access%20to%20confidential%20statistical%20data.pdf)

Annual

not applicable

Croatian Health Service Yearbook, http://www.hzjz.hr/publikacije/statisticki-ljetopis/

not applicable

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At the state level Communication working group was established which aim is to ensure the exchange of information through IT support for data collection based on the current Data Collector on accidents at work and occupational diseases. Communication Group coordinates the work of different groups of professionals who meet the requirements of their specific technical and operational problems, and defining and agreeing standards to improve the quality of the data collection from institutions and systems.

Data collection is in harmony with EU regulation including classification system.

To improve the data quality Communication working group was established (see above) with representatives from Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Croatian Health Insurance Institute, Croatian Institute of Public Health, Institute for Safety at Work and Croatian Institute for Health and Safety at Work.

Communication Working Group adopted an Action Plan in order to improve all aspects of health and safety including the collection of data on accidents at work and occupational diseases.

Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Family and Social Policy,  Central Bureau of Statistics, employers, trade unions, ILO, WHO

not applicable

ESAW I, II and III variables.

ESAW I, II and III variables

REPORTING LEVELS OF ECONOMIC SECTORS (NACE), (Annual update expected)

Global reporting level

Reporting levels by sector

Additional comments on global reporting level

Codes:

N sector not covered by data collection
UNK sector covered but unknown reporting level
(value %) reporting level
(e) rough estimate (instead of "medium" or "high")

Explanation: Please fill in every cell with information, either "N" for sector not covered by the data collection, "UNK" for sectors covered but unknown reporting level, or a percentage value for sectors covered for which the reporting level is known (such as "52%"). Instead of "medium" or "high" please fill in a approximate value and flag it with "(e)" at the end, such as "50% (e)". Please fill in both, the global reporting cells and the detailed rows for individual sectors. If for example no sector is covered for your country, then fill into every cell "0", if all sectors are covered but all reporting levels are unknown fill in "UNK" in every cell. "N/A" should be replaced by either "N" or "UNK".

All economic sectors are covered including defence.

The national ESAW data source are the notifications to Croatian Health Insurance Fund (non-fatal) and the Labour Inspectorate of Ministry of Labour and Pension System, Family and Social Policy and Croatian Institute of Public Health (fatal accidents).

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Until 30 June of year N+1 (2010-2012), until 30 April N+1 (2013-2021)

-Programme of Statistical Activities for carrying out the tasks of the official statistics

see above

6 months after the end of the reference year

At the legal deadline of 30 June of year N+1.  All data is usually published until September - October of year N+1.

not applicable

not applicable

Not applicable

ESAW data for 2010 and 2011 were based on sample of 10% of all accidents at work. Data from 2012 till 2021 based on all notifications.

Published national data were based on ILO methodology.

The last major break was due to change of NACE rev 1 to NACE rev 2 (from 1.1.2008)

not applicable

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ESAW data phase I, II and III coherent from 2010

There is currently no cost/burden analysis available for ESAW data at country level.

Not applicable.

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Not applicable.

Data based on the notification of accident at work to the Croatian Health Insurance Fund.

Annual.

ESAW data are extracted from relevant national administrative databases according to ESAW concepts, definitions, variables and classifications (see also section '3.1. Source data' above).

Various automatic and manual checks are performed on ESAW data transmitted from Member States to Eurostat in order to identify possible errors and inconsistencies with the ESAW methodology. Countries are asked to check all inconsistencies and corrections and re-send data if necessary.

Validation activities include:
• checking that the population coverage and response rates are as required;
• comparing the statistics with previous cycles ;
• investigating inconsistencies in the statistics;
• performing micro and macro data editing.

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