Presentation of statistics and performanceof occupational health and safety sectionsof the governorates of Iraq

Occupational safety and health departments in Iraq collect information
on injuries and work accidents in two ways

The First Tranche: There is a ministerial program ofcooperation between the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs
and the Ministry of Health through cases that enter theemergency lounges. Government Hospitals Cases that comeas work injuries and accidents are recorded through a form
prepared by the Department of Health and Safety
Method 2:: Through direct reports by industrial and service
companies where some companies report accidents orthrough field visits of companies and laboratories to follow
the procedures of occupational health and safety

The problems we encounter during thecollection of information about accidents
1- The occupational health and safety department is linked to theMinistry of Labor and Social Affairs and to the Ministry of Health and theMinistry of Labor is more concerned with social matters than others
2- There are legal, economic and social consequences that prevent thereporting of work accidents in the laboratory to the competentauthorities, which turns employers into tribal solutions outside the law.
3-TheThe Occupational Health and Safety instructions in Iraq is notindependent. It is linked to the laws of other departments such as thesocial security departments and the Ministry of Labor
4 - The long and routine procedures established by the Social Security
Department in obtaining compensation in the event of accidents havemade employers evade reporting accidents

Who benefit from the data of the reported/recorded
Occupational Accidents and Diseases?
All information collected about the employee's accidents and injuries
shall be sent to the National Center for Occupational Health and Safety
in Baghdad to be collected and analyzed professionally
The only beneficiary is the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs ¥ National
Center for Occupational Safety and Health, which is the patron of all
sections of the provinces in terms of material, administrative andtechnicalWork injury statistics
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What are the categories necessary to be recorded inregards to Occupational Diseases/Accidents? Pleasename the categories.
We have a form prepared for this purpose attached to a copy in English
distributed to the emergency people in government hospitals andcompanies in the private and public sectors to be worked out when aninjury or work accident
Yes, the media may publish news about accidents and big work injuries.
I do not think there is anything hidden in the modern technology andthe evolution of what is happening (but this is not our own
department.) There may be seminars, television debates anddiscussions of the situation.

What are the categories necessary to be recorded in regards toOccupational Diseases/Accidents? Please name the categories.

• Accidents that are recorded in Al-Tuwari
Tuwari District (as written in theattached form) do not represent the actual number of injuries andwork accidents and the absence of an effective and accurate
registration system as mentioned above

Reasons for the inaccuracy of information provided by theEmergency Division on injuries and work accidents
1- The Ministry of Health is not serious and is not interested in the registration system because theprogram has no financial or moral benefits
2- The Ministry of Health has two aspects in the first preventive treatment and the second istherapeutic. Therefore, if the injured person enters the emergency department, he will accuse thespecialists first of reducing the pain and treating the patient and taking care of the most serious
injury without paying attention to recording a problem in this form that comes back to ourdepartments
3 - not to make a casualty or an accident to escape the punitive measures imposed by the internal
security forces
4 - non-clear
clear identification of the identity of the injured and the affliction that proves the name andplace of residence and age for the purpose of completing the form information because ofconfusion
5.. Death of the patient and concern with the procedures resulting from this and leave the details ofthe incident to be recorded in this form
6 - Absence of the employee responsible for the form of work injuries at the time of the accident
7 - Other reasons can not be mentioned for many• The Department of Insurance is the department that deals with and supervises the work injuries
program and conducts the investigations and financial compensation for employees inaccordance with the provisions of the Labor Law in force• Then he is the official sponsor in the country to follow up the guarantee of workers and theirinjuries and compensation, financial, medical and pension, depending on the situation and injury(but only in the private sector, either the government sector employee department is concerned• But the fact that it is not working at the required level for several reasons:• 1 - the process of valid and effective statistics and the collection of real numbers of casualties• 2.. Adopting an effective and controlled registration system in both the private and public sectors,
devoid of the political, social and economic interventions mentioned above• 3 - attention to this is related to the life of man honored by God and belief in that service ofservices• 4 - The establishment of a penal law for all users or anyone trying to hide information or change
this program• 5.. Dissemination of the culture of reporting of injuries and work accidents and their importanceand the implementation of the law through television channels and social networking sites

Obstacles to knowledge and limitation ofoccupational diseases• 1 - The absence of hospitals specialized in occupational diseases in
the provinces and not in Baghdad• As you know, public hospitals differ in the specialties of their staff
from occupational medicine hospitals• 2 - The absence of a section in the National Center for Occupational
Health and Safety, which deals with the inventory of work injuries andaccidents and the development of an effective registration system• 3.. Our departments do not have specialists who perform professionaltasks

Recommendations• 1- Opening professional hospitals (occupational medicine) in the governorates to monitor andmonitor these matters• 2 - Encouraging specialized doctors to engage in the study of occupational medicine is important• 3 - The development and enactment of new laws to oblige and penalize those who carry out theprogram of work injuries and accidents• 4.. Opening a section in the National Center for Health and Occupational Safety concerned withaccidents and accidents and deals with everything related to it• 5 - network link to all departments related to our department to be all circles and companies tomaintain constant on the subject• 6 - Lack of attention to the safety side and leave the side of health and vice versa when a businessevent• 7- To show and show the results of the analysis of accidents and injuries to determine the extent
of increase and decrease after setting a goal for each year or five years• 8 - Working hand in hand and spirit of one team from all parties related to the subject to be clean
because it concerns human life
• 9.. Activating the social security system in compensating injuries, reducing red tape and increasing
financial incentives, as the social security law is more like what it is, and the worker is the only
loser when he is injured

In the end, dear sir, I can only
thank you for your time andattention