Work Related Fatal and Non-Fatal Incident Database
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA).
The HSA has been gathering data since its inception in 1989.
The HSA collects data on accidents at work as part of its requirement to comply with the Framework Directive 89/391/EEC (1) on measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work. The European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) methodology specifies the information that is to be collected by the HSA. In addition, Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2016 all employers and self-employed persons are legally obliged to report the injury of an employee as a result of an accident while at work.
This provides national statistics and trends on work-related accidents and informs the Authority’s Programme of Work.
Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2016, all employers and self-employed persons are legally obliged to report the injury of an employee as a result of an accident while at work. Injuries must be reported if the employee is unable to carry out their normal work for more than three consecutive days, excluding the day of the accident.
Data collection is continuous and is reported on an annual basis.
Non-fatal incidents and dangerous occurrences are self-reported (i.e. reported by employers and self-employed persons).
Fatal incidents can be reported by employers, self-employed persons, or An Garda Síochána.
Notifications should be sent via a standard form available here https://www.hsa.ie/eng/Publications_and_Forms/Forms/ and are submitted to the Authority’s Contact Centre.
Key users are Authority Staff. Reports and key statistics based on the data are made available for a variety of users:
-Board members
-Industry Stakeholders
-Executive Team
-Media
-Government Departments and Agencies
-General Public
-Academia
-The European Statistical Office, Eurostat, via the European Statistics on Accidents at Work Framework.
The data items include: incident details (date, time, location); injured party details (name, gender, employment status, age etc.); employer details (company, NACE code, location etc.), injury details (trigger, body part injured etc.)
ESAW methodology specifies the information to be collected.
ESAW methodology provides definitions of all fields. We are currently developing a new core platform of which a data dictionary will be a part.
Eircodes are included but not mandatory as of yet. Standard business identifiers may be included in future.
Employment status, type of worker, age, gender, nationality, place of employment.
Notifications should be sent via a standard form available here https://www.hsa.ie/eng/Publications_and_Forms/Forms/ and are submitted to the Authority’s Contact Centre.
Notifications are sent on a continuous basis (as incidents arise).
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Average 2017 - 2021
Fatal incidents 45.4
Non-fatal incidents 8792.4
Dangerous Occurrences 288.4
The Annual Review of Workplace Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities is published annually.
Data is sent to Eurostat Annually (18 months in arrears)
The following reports can be downloaded from www.hsa.ie:
Statistics - Health and Safety Authority (hsa.ie)
Annual Review of Workplace Injuries, Illnesses and Fatalities 2019–2020
Other sectoral reports recently published:
Work-Related Deaths Involving Vehicles in Ireland 2010–2019
A Review of Work-Related Fatalities in Agriculture in Ireland 2011-2020
Non-Fatal Workplace Injuries - Datasets - data.gov.ie
Underreporting in certain sectors is a European wide problem. Thus, our reports also refer to the CSO’s Workplace Accidents and Illnesses module of the LFS for data on accidents at work.