Accident at work is defined as an event that produced violent damages to the employee’s body (injury, psychological stress, electrocution, burn, freezing wounds, asphyxia, professional acute intoxication, body injuries provoked by insects and animals, natural calamities, etc.), as a result of actions induced by some risk factors (peculiarity, condition, process, phenomenon, behavior) peculiar to a work system element (executor, work tasks, production means, work environment), provoking the temporary or permanent loss of work capacities or death of the employee, occurred:
- during the carrying out the work tasks or duty obligations;
- before starting or after ending the work, when the employee moves from the entrance of the premises of the enterprise, institution, organization (hereinafter referred to as unit) to the place of work and backwards, changes his/her personal clothes into individual protection and work equipment and vice-versa, takes over or returns the production means and the place of work;
- during the set breaks, when the employee stays on the territory of the unit or his/her place of work, as well as when visiting the sanitary-hygienic or auxiliary premises;
- during the trip from home and backwards with the transportation provided by the unit, in the established way, as well as when getting into and out of this transportation means;
- during the move from the unit in which the employee works to the place of work organized outside the territory of the unit, or to another unit and backwards, or to another locality and backwards, so as to carry out a work task or a duty obligation, in a useful period for him/her and on the established move route, regardless of the movement way or the used transportation means;
- during the participation in cultural, sport events and other activities organized by the unit based on the order issued by the employer;
- during the action undertaken on own initiative for preventing or avoiding a danger or to rescue another employee from the danger within the circumstances specified in letters a), b), c), d) and f) from above;
- during the production training or professional internship based on the contract concluded between the employer and the educational institution, between the employer, pupils and students.
Man-days of work incapacity represents the total number days of absence from work due to the loss of work capacity of victims (except for the weekends and legal holidays) because of work accidents.
Rate of accidents represents the relation between the number of victims of accidents at work in the reference period and the total number of employees, expressed in promilles.
Rate of fatal accidents represents the relation between the number of fatal cases during the respective period and the total number of employees, expressed in promilles.
Victims of accidents at work - the number of employees who suffered as a result of accidents at work, which caused temporary loss of work capacity, disability or death.