Fatal occupational injuries | Ireland

Statistics on occupational injuries could come from a variety of sources, including various types of administrative records (insurance records, labour inspection records, records kept by the labour ministry or the relevant social security institution), establishment surveys and household surveys. The recommended data sources for occupational injuries statistics are national systems for the notification of occupational injuries (such as labour inspection records and annual reports, insurance and compensation records, and death registers), supplemented by household surveys (especially in order to cover informal sector enterprises and the self-employed) and/or establishment surveys. It is worth noting that fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries tend to be notified to and compensated by different agencies, so when using statistics from administrative records, statistics on fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries would very likely come from different records. This means that the sources may have different coverage, and thus fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries, even though very complementary, may not be strictly comparable.