RULE 1050

NOTIFICATION AND
KEEPING OF RECORDS
OF ACCIDENTS AND/OR
OCCUPATIONAL
ILLNESSES
RULE 1050
Rule 1050 is a regulation that pertains to the
reporting and documentation of accidents and
occupational illnesses within a workplace. This
rule is often implemented as part of health and
safety regulations in various organizations or
industries to ensure the well-being of employees
and compliance with legal requirements.
RULE 1051 : DEFINITION
1. Medical Treatment Injury - an injury which does not result in a disabling injury but which
requires first aid and medical treatment of any kind.
2. Disabling Injury - a work injury which results in death, permanent total disability, permanent
partial disability or temporary total disability.
3. Death - any fatality resulting from a work injury regardless of the time intervening between
injury and death.
4. Permanent Total Disability - any injury or sickness other than death which permanently
and totally incapacitates an employee from engaging in any gainful occupation or which
results in the loss or the complete loss of use of any of the following in one accident:
a. both eyes;
b. one eye and one hand, or arm, or leg or foot;
c. any two of the following not in the same limb, hand, arm, foot, leg, permanent complete
paralysis of two limbs
d. brain injury resulting in incurable imbecility or insanity
5. Permanent Partial Disability - any injury other than death or permanent total disability,
which results in the loss or loss of use of any member or part of a member of the body
regardless of any pre-existing disability of the injured member or impaired body function.
6. Temporary Total Disability - any injury or illness which does not result in death or permanent
total or permanent partial disability but which results in disability from work for a day or more.
7. Regularly Established Job - the occupation or job description of the activities performed by an
employee at the time of the accident and shall not mean one which has been established
especially to accommodate an injured employee, either for therapeutic reason or to avoid
counting the case as disability.
8. Day of Disability - any day in which an employee is unable, because of injury or illness, to
perform effectively throughout a full shift the essential functions of a regularly established job
which is open and available to him.
9. Total Days Lost - the combined total, for all injuries or illnesses of:
a. all days of disability resulting from temporary total injuries or illnesses; and/or
b. all scheduled charges assigned to fatal, permanent total and permanent partial injuries or
illnesses.
10. Scheduled Charges - the specific charge (in full days) assigned to a permanent partial,
permanent total, or fatal injury or illness.
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11. Employee - ” for the purpose of counting injuries or illnesses or calculating exposures shall
be as defined in Rule 1002 (2) and shall include working owners and officers.
12. Exposure - the total number of employee-hours worked by all employees of the reporting
establishment or unit.
13. Disabling Injury Frequency Rate - is the number of disabling injuries per 1,000,000
employee-hours of exposure rounded to the nearest two (2) decimal places.
14. Disabling Injury Severity Rate - is the number of days lost per 1,000,000 employees-
hours of exposure rounded to the nearest whole number.
RULE 1052 : SPECIAL PROVISION
RULE 1052 .01
Reports made by the employer shall be exclusively for the information of the Regional Labor
Office or duly authorized representative in securing data to be used in connection with the
performance of its accident and illness prevention duties and activities and is a requirement
distinct from that of the Employee’s Compensation Commission or any other law. These
reports shall not be admissible as evidence in any action or judicial proceedings in respect to
such injury, fitness or death on account of which report is made and shall not be made public
or subject to public inspection except for prosecution for violations under this Rule.

RULE 1052 .02

The definitions and standard used here are independent of those established by the
Employee’s Compensation Commission.
RULE 1053 : REPORT REQUIREMENTS
All work accidents or occupational illnesses in places of employment, resulting in disabling
condition or dangerous occurrence shall be reported by the employer to the Regional Labor
Office or DOLE RO.
-If a major work accident results in death or permanent total disability, employer shall initially
notify the DOLE RO within 24 hours.

RULE 1054 : KEEPING OF RECORDS

The employers shall maintain and keep an accident or illness record which shall be open at all
times for inspection to authorized personnel.

The employer shall accomplish an Annual Work Accident/Illness Exposure Data Report in
duplicate using the prescribed form DOLE/BWC/HSD-IP-6b, which shall be submitted to the
Bureau copy furnished the Regional Labor Office or duly authorized representative having
jurisdiction on or before the 30th day of the month following the end of each calendar year.
RULE 1055 : EVALUATION OF DISABILITY
RULE 1055 .01 - CHARGES
1. Death resulting from accident shall be assigned at time charge of 6,000 days
NOTIFICATION AND KEEPING OF RECORDS
2. Permanent total disability resulting from work accident shall be assigned a time charge of
6,000 days.
[Link] Partial disability either traumatic or surgical, resulting from work accident shall
be assigned the time charge. These charges shall be used whether the actual number of days
lost is greater or less than the scheduled charges or even if no actual days are lost at all.
4. For each finger or toe, use only one charge for the highest valued bone involved. For
computations of more than one finger or toe, total the separate charges for each finger or toe.
5. Charges due to permanent impairment of functions shall be a percentage of the scheduled
charges corresponding to the percentage of permanent reduction of functions of the member
or part involved as determined by the physician authorized by the employer to treat the injury
or illness.
6. Loss of hearing is considered a permanent partial disability only in the event of industrial
impairment of hearing from traumatic injury, industrial noise exposure or occupational illness.
7. The charge due to permanent impairment of vision shall be a percentage of the scheduled
charge corresponding to the percentage of permanent impairment of vision as determined by
the physician authorized by the employer to treat the injury or illness.
8. For permanent impairment affecting more than one part of the body, the total charge shall
be the sum of the scheduled charges for the individual body parts. If the total exceeds 6,000
days, the charge shall be 6,000 days.
9. Where an employee suffers from both permanent partial disability and a temporary total
disability in one accident, the greater days lost shall be used and shall determine the injury
classification.
10. The charge for any permanent partial disability other than those identified in the schedule
of time charges shall be a percentage of 6,000 days as determined by the physician authorized
by the employer to treat the injury or illness.
11. The charge for a temporary total disability shall be the total number of calendar days of
disability resulting from the injury or fitness as defined in Rule (8)
RULE 1056 : MEASUREMENT OF PERFORMANCE
RULE 1056 .01 - EXPOSURE TO INDUSTRIAL INJURIES
Exposure to work injuries shall be measured by the total number of hours of employment of
all employers in each establishment or reporting unit. The exposure of a central administrative
office or central sales office of a multi-establisment-concem shall not be included in the
experience of any one establishment, nor prorated among the establishments, but shall be
included in the over-all experience of the multiestablishment.

RULE 1056 .02 - DETERMINATONN OF EMPLOYEE HOURS OF EXPOSURE

Employee-hours of exposure for calculating work injury rates are intended to be actual hours
worked. When actual hours are not available, estimated hours may be used.
RULE 1056 .03 - MEASURES OF INJURY/ILLNESSES EXPERIENCE

(1) Disabling Injury /Illnesses Frequency Rates - The disabling injury/illness frequency rate is
based upon the total number of deaths, permanent total, permanent partial, and temporary
total disabilities which occur during the period covered by the rate. The rate relates those
injuries/illnesses to the employee hours worked during the period and expresses the num- ber
of such injuries/illnesses in terms of a million man-hour unit by the use of the formula:

Disabling Injury/Illness Number of Disabling Injury/Illness x 1,000,000

Frequency Rate (FR) = Employees-hours of exposure

The frequency rate shall be rounded to the nearest two decimal

places.
(2) Disabling Injury / Illness Severity Rate - The disabling injury / illness severity rate is based on
the total of all scheduled charges for all deaths, permanent total and permanent partial
disabilities, plus the total actual days of the disabilities of all temporary total disabilities which
occur during the period covered by the rate. The rate relates these days to the total employee-
hours worked during the period and expresses the loss in terms of million manhour unit by
the use of the formula.

Disabling Injury /Illness total days lost x 1,000,000

Severity Rate (SR) = employee-hours of exposure

The severity rate shall be rounded to the nearest whole number

(3) Average Days Charged per Disabling Injury - The average days charged per disabling
injury/illness expresses the relationship between the total days charged and the number of
disabling injuries/Illness. The average may be calculated by the use of the formula:

Average days charged per Total Days Lost

Disabling injury/illness = total number of disabling
injuries/illnesses
or
Average days charge per injury severity rate

Disabling injury/illness = injury/illness frequency rate