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MetricOccupational health and safety

Calendar days lost by work-related cause and method

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Calendar days of absence attributed to the named work-related injury, accident, ill-health or fatality cause during the reporting period, retained by worker population, day-count convention and source edition.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period absence flow with event-cohort and prior-period policy
Aggregation
Sum only deduplicated rows within one compatible method, cause and worker population
Pillar
Social
Topic
Occupational health and safety
Controlled domain
Workforce
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Retain calendar days lost by source edition, cause, population and day-count convention. Sum only non-overlapping rows under one method; never add a reported total to components or combine temporary incapacity days with permanent or fatal estimates.

Cross-library identity

Library mappings and variants

These links compare quantity, population, boundary, period, unit, denominator, aggregation, dimensions, and method edition. Partial relationships are navigation aids only and never authorize observation reuse.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    European Sustainability Reporting Standards

    ESRS S1
    Publisher
    EFRAG
    Edition
    Taxonomy entry point dated 22 December 2023; package published 30 August 2024
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Method Variant
    Mapping outcome
    Cross Library Link
    Source locator
    ESRS S1; S1-14; paragraph 88; datapoint S1-14_07; taxonomy concept esrs_NumberOfDaysLostToWorkrelatedInjuriesAndFatalitiesFromWorkrelatedAccidentsWorkrelatedIllHealthAndFatalitiesFromIllHealth
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  • Measurement Authority

    International Labour Organization

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    International Labour Organization
    Edition
    Adopted by the 16th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, October 1998
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Measurement
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Measurement paragraphs 12-19, PDF pages 4-5
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  • Measurement Authority

    International Labour Organization

    inj-days-nb
    Publisher
    International Labour Organization
    Edition
    ILOSTAT public indicator catalogue snapshot 31 August 2026; current Decent Work measurement framework
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    ILOSTAT representative variable INJ_DAYS_NB; 2 current tables
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Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period absence flow with event-cohort and prior-period policy

Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.

Table fields and units

  • Calendar days lost — days of absence under the named first-day, last-day, recurrence, and fatality convention
  • Cause category and fatal or non-fatal status
  • Worker population, site or geography, and source edition
  • Event period, absence period, reporting period, and prior-period case policy
  • Temporary, permanent, or fatal-incapacity treatment; direct or estimated status; privacy or phase-in state

Published dimensions

  • Method profile, edition, and calendar-day or scheduled-workday basis
  • Injury, accident, ill-health, fatality, or source-reported combined cause
  • Employee, non-employee, other worker, or statistical reference population
  • First day, last day, recurrence, prior-period case, and incapacity treatment
  • Event period, absence period, reporting period, geography, and site
  • Direct, estimated, privacy-restricted, phased-in, source, and assurance status

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    Resolution concerning statistics of occupational injuries

    Publisher
    International Labour Organization
    Edition
    Adopted by the 16th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, October 1998
    Locator
    Measurement paragraphs 12-19, PDF pages 4-5

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Calendar days lost by work-related cause and method”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.

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Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Binding consolidated ESRS S1-14 with the in-force phase-in amendment; adopted-pending ESRS is compatibility context, and the current 1998 ILO statistical profile is kept separate.

  • Name the source method and edition, cause category, worker population, site or geography, and reporting period.
  • State the first-day, last-day, calendar-day or scheduled-workday, recurrence, and prior-period case conventions.
  • Keep temporary incapacity separate from permanent or fatal-incapacity estimates and state fatality treatment.
  • Label direct or estimated values and preserve privacy restriction or applicable phase-in status rather than zero.

Record-specific limitations

  • Days lost measure absence and organizational burden, not clinical severity.
  • Current ESRS and ILO differ in cause scope and start and end conventions.
  • Long-latency ill health, privacy restrictions and reporting access can reduce completeness.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.