A report is published annually. The Statistics Department of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security is a delegated organ of the National Institute of Statistics and its activities are funded from the Ministry's general budget. General aim The general aim is to provide information regarding accidents which have occurred at work with a view to helping set up preventive measures. The obligation to report accidents at work is imposed by the law. When an accident occurs at work, the insurance company, or the enterprise itself if it is in a position to do so, has to send notification to the competent tribunals, which in turn pass on a copy to the National Institute of Statistics for forwarding to the Statistics Department.
Notification has to be made in a specific document already prepared for that purpose.
A quarterly statistical bulletin is distributed to government organs and the social agents. Access to the information is entirely free and no charge is made. There is no integration with other information system. The user may print out data or a copy it to a computer disc, provided that such copy is for his own personal use or internal corporate use only.