Unified Metrics Library - Number of days lost to injuries, accidents, fatalities or illness

Estimates of lost working days are expressed as full-time equivalent (FTE) working days to take account of variation in the daily hours worked (for example, part-timers who may work a shorter day or people who work particularly long hours). FTE is a unit of measurement used to figure out the number of full-time hours worked by all employees in a business.

Regulatory Definition

According to the (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022, the metric is defined as "Number of workdays lost to injuries, accidents, fatalities or illness of investee companies expressed as a weighted average".

• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the details of the content and presentation of the information in relation to the principle of do no significant harm . ANNEX I (Table 3, Additional indicators for social and employee, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters, Social and employee matters, Indicator 3

Days lost due to cases of occupational injury with temporary incapacity for work. Examples of such cases include falling from a height, manual mishandling of work-related machinery and faulty equipment usage.