Occupational Safety and Health Statistics
1. Statistics and reported cases in occupational injuries and diseases in Vietnama.
Total occupational injuries and disease (1996-2000)
| Year | Serious Occupational Accidents (OA) | Occupational diseases (OD) |
|---|
| Number of serious occupational accidents | Number of fatal victim | Number of serious injury victim | New cases in the year | Total Number Occupational diseases gathering previous years |
|---|
| 1996 | 249 | 285 | 1530 | 787 | 8836 |
| 1997 | 320 | 402 | 1870 | 1063 | 9899 |
| 1998 | 312 | 362 | 2552 | 865 | 10764 |
| 1999 | 335 | 399 | 2611 | 1378 | 12142 |
| 2000 | 368 | 403 | 1020 | 1081 | 13223 |
(Source: Department of Labour Protection MOLISA) and Department of Medicine Preventive (MOH)
Fatal Occupational accients break down by age (1996- 1999)
| Year |
Rate of Fatal Occupational accients break down by age |
| < 18 |
from 18 to 30 |
from 31 to 45 |
> 46 |
| 1996 |
15 |
37.5 |
43.5 |
4 |
| 1997 |
17.8 |
36.3 |
38.5 |
7.4 |
| 1998 |
25.1 |
35.5 |
32.6 |
6.8 |
| 1999 |
23.4 |
34.9 |
35.7 |
6 |
Fatal Occupational accients break down by occupational age (1996- 1999)
| year | < 1 year | 1 to 5 years | 6 to 10 years | 11 to 20 years | > 20 year |
|---|
| 1996 | 22.1 | 32.5 | 17.2 | 14.7 | 13.5 |
| 1997 | 15.1 | 37.9 | 15.1 | 17.5 | 14.4 |
| 1998 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| 1999 | 7.6 | 43 | 9 | 36.6 | 6.8 |
Occupational accidents in electricity (1996-2000)
| Year | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
|---|
| Fatal accidents occupational frequency per 100,000 employees | 12 | 33 | 8 | 12 | 6 |
| Accidents occupational frequency per 100,000 employees | 98 | 118 | 86 | 47 | 47 |
| Fatal accidents occupational frequency per one billion KWh product | 0.47 | 4.05 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.17 |
| Accidents occupational frequency per one billion KWh product | 3.7 | 4.05 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.17 |
(Source: Report of Vietnam Electricity Co operation – 2001)
Occupational accidents in coal exploitation (1996-2000)
| Year | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
|---|
| Total of labor force | 73.287 | 69.849 | 75.971 | 82.075 | 78.000 |
| Total of clean coal production (Billion tone) | 9.6 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 10.3 | 11.3 |
| Fatal accidents occupational frequency per 100,000 employees | 31 | 43 | 14 | 48 | 30 |
| Accidents occupational frequency per 100,000 employees | 24 | 27 | 10 | 38 | 21 |
(Source: Department of Labour Inspection – 2001)
Occupational accidents are classified into 3 categories
- Fatal occupational accidents: the victims die at the place where the accident occurs, die on the way to hospital, die while being given emergency first aid, die in the period of treatment, die because of recurrence of the wound caused by the occupational accidents;
- Serious occupational accidents: victims having at least one of the injuries referred to in Appendix 1 (see below)
- Light occupational accidents: all other accidents, which do not fall into the above-mentioned categories.
2. Number of occupational injury and diseases cases, which received compensation. (1996-2000)
| Year | New cases in the year | Total number gathering previous years |
|---|
| 1996 | 893 | 13308 |
| 1997 | 1252 | 14560 |
| 1998 | 1810 | 16370 |
| 1999 | 1682 | 18052 |
| As per 7th Of July 2000 | 1798 | 19850 |
(Source: Social Security Office- 2000)
