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MetricOccupational health and safety

Recordable work-related injury cases

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Number of work-related injury or accident cases meeting the declared recordability method during the reporting period, retained by worker population, injury type, incident type and fatality-inclusion rule.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period incident flow
Aggregation
Sum only unique cases within one compatible definition and worker population
Pillar
Social
Topic
Occupational health and safety
Controlled domain
Workforce
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Keep injury cases separate from ill-health cases. Include fatal work-related injury or accident cases once when the source profile requires it. Sum only unique cases under one definition and population; never add fatalities again or add parent rows to components.

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_04; taxonomy concept esrs_NumberOfRecordableWorkrelatedAccidents
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    EU Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard

    recordable-accidents-count
    Publisher
    European Commission / EFRAG
    Edition
    Commission delegated act adopted 3 July 2026; pending Official Journal publication
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Reuses Canonical Metric
    Mapping outcome
    Reused
    Source locator
    Annex I paragraph 41(a)
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2018 edition, effective for reports published from 1 January 2021
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Disclosures 403-8 to 403-10, compilation requirements and glossary, PDF pages 19-31
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting-period incident flow

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

  • Injury cases — count of source-defined recordable work-related injury or accident cases
  • Recordability definition, edition, declared national alternative, and fatality-inclusion rule
  • Worker population, injury and incident type, commuting rule, site or geography, and reporting period
  • Direct or estimated status, excluded workers and reason, source and assurance status

Published dimensions

  • ESRS or GRI recordability definition, edition, and declared national alternative
  • Employee, controlled non-employee, or own-workforce population
  • Injury or accident terminology, injury type, incident type, and musculoskeletal classification
  • Fatality inclusion, commuting rule, excluded workers, and exclusion reason
  • Site or geography, reporting period, direct or estimated status, source and assurance

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

    GRI 403: Occupational Health and Safety 2018

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2018 edition, effective for reports published from 1 January 2021
    Locator
    Disclosures 403-8 to 403-10, compilation requirements and glossary, PDF pages 19-31

    Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Recordable work-related injury cases”; 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 and effective GRI 403: 2018 use distinct recordability and population profiles; adopted-pending ESRS is compatibility context.

  • Name the recordability profile and edition, any national alternative, worker population, and reporting period.
  • State fatality inclusion, commuting rule, injury and incident type, site, and excluded worker types and reasons.
  • Include fatal injury cases once where required and keep injury and ill-health cases separate.
  • Do not add a parent population row to components and label any estimated data.

Record-specific limitations

  • Recordability rules vary by source and jurisdiction.
  • Reporting access and culture affect case counts.
  • The count is not exposure normalized and does not measure safety or injury severity.

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.