Assessment of Occupational Safety Based on the Analysis of Accidents in the Mining Industry

Abstract

The main purpose of the work is to present the level of accidents in the Polish mining industry and to obtain answers, among others, to the following questions: what are the accident rates in the last decade and in which types of mining do the most accidents at work occur? In order to achieve the objectives of the work, statistical data from the years 2013-2022 from the State Mining Authority and the Central Statistical Office were analyzed. The data analysis was carried out for the entire mining industry as well as for its individual types, i.e. underground, open pit and borehole mining. In addition to the absolute accident rate analysis, an indicator analysis was also used, with particular emphasis on the frequency rates of accidents at work: total, severe and fatal. The work also defines the basic concepts of accidents at work.