Workers in Alberta will be able to view workplace safety statistics online this fall. (CBC) A group representing Alberta workers is dismissing workplace safety statistics the province plans to post online.

The Alberta Federation of Labour said the statistics are incomplete and will not provide an accurate picture of how safe workplaces are.

"The public doesn't know whether that company had convictions, whether they had any claims made against them in terms of violations of the safety codes," AFL Secretary-Treasurer Nancy Furlong said.

"So the information is ... incomplete and because it's incomplete, it's pretty useless."

On Tuesday, the province's employment and immigration minister, Thomas Lukaszuk, announced the site will list statistics provided by the Workers Compensation Board. They include the number of lost-time claims, the lost-time claim rate and the number of fatalities for each company.

But Furlong says the fact the statistics come from the WCB is part of the problem. Some companies may not allow their employers to claim lost time, she said.

The province should, instead, make public the number of times companies have been charged and convicted for safety code violations, she said.

A department spokesperson who contacted CBC News said that information about charges and prosecutions is available on the Alberta Employment and Immigration website.

The information is expected to go online sometime this fall. It will list statistics for the approximately 160,000 companies covered by WCB legislation, which Lukaszuk said makes up 98 to 99 per cent of employers in the province.

Earlier this year, Lukaszuk came under fire from opposition parties for not immediately releasing the names of employers singled out by the auditor general for ignoring workplace safety orders.

Lukaszuk has promised to release those names once he determined that doing so would not break any privacy laws.