venerdì 3 ottobre 2008

Victims at work in the World




R.S. Edited by a ECplanet

Work-related accidents each year are 4% of world GDP. The information disseminated by the ILO on the occasion of World Day of the health and safety at work. Every year, worldwide, 2.2 million workers lose their lives due to accidents at work or occupational disease. It is as if every year a city like Paris is lost and its homes and its streets remained deserted in a terrible silence. Over 270 million are the accidents that occur each year and 160 million new cases of occupational diseases.

The figures are contained in a report submitted in recent days by the ILO in Geneva on the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The organization has launched a new appeal for best practices in health and safety at work (including the reporting of accidents and occupational diseases, inspection of work and respect the rules) as a means to reduce the number accidents, injuries and diseases at work and improve productivity.

"The incidents - Maziadi said Sameer Al-Tuwaijri of the ILO - are not intrinsic to the work. Experience shows that most accidents can be avoided. We need the commitment of governments, employers and workers to systematically implement best practices for prevention at the national level to level. " From an economic standpoint, accidents and occupational diseases represent a loss equal to 4% of world GDP, "which amounts to 20 times the total amount of official development worldwide."

The ILO report also highlights the link between decent work and occupational health and safety. The ILO has adopted in 2006, the Promotional Framework Convention on Safety and Health at Work. "The new framework Convention aims to promote the health and safety at work. At the same time, the Convention encourages the political commitment to develop national strategies to promote the safety and health at work and prevent injuries, illnesses and deaths linked to employment, to take the necessary measures to gradually create healthy working environments and secure a regular basis to consider measures to be taken to ratify the ILO Conventions on health and safety. "
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“At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide. What is remarkable about these unremarkable processes is how they attract little or no popular, political or academic attention. Just as remarkable here is the contrast between this deafening silence on the one hand and the ongoing moral panic that characterises social responses to most ‘mainstream’ violent crime on the other.” Absolutely, the way fatalities in the workplace are brushed under the carpet is obscene and the true figure is higher than the HSE gives. I mean, Workers’ Memorial Day is a time to the remember the dead and fight for the living (and it is a good slogan) but not enough is being done esp. in workplaces were health and safety are neglected. And also people who have worked with asbestos for example, they can end up a ticking time bomb as the cancer can take years to develop. More people die from asbestos related illnesses than die in traffic accidents. And yet when it to dealing with companies etc. to make them responsible the government runs shy. I mean, look at the Corporate Manslaughter legislation….