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News: Safety and health at work Experience has shown that a preventative safety culture is beneficial for workers, employers and governments alike. Various prevention techniques have proven themselves effective, both in avoiding workplace accidents and illnesses and improving business performance. Read more |
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The conditions of health and safety during professional occupation should be a priority of each working person, the employers, the governments and the society in general. |
April 2009
Dear
friends,
You certainly agree with me that the professional activity of people has tremendous influence on their health and safety. Health and safety is a very large topic of capital importance with many individual, collective, social and international implications.
The risks related to our work that are threatening our physical and mental well being are many and constantly changing. The statistical data provided by the European Union (EU) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicate the heavy burden working people have to pay every day and the huge work remaining to be done to protect everybody from professional risk to health and safety.
Every three and a half minutes, somebody in the EU dies from work-related causes. That's more than 150,000 deaths a year as a result of either work-related accidents (8,900) or occupational diseases (142,000).
By the end of this day, nearly 1 million workers will suffer a workplace accident and around 5,500 workers will die due to an accident or disease from their work! (ILO/SafeWork, 2009).
The ILO estimates that some 2.2 million women and men around the world succumb to work-related accidents or diseases every year. Worldwide, there are around 270 million occupational accidents and 160 million victims of work-related illnesses annually. Younger and older workers are particularly vulnerable.
You will get more information about this crucially important issue in the article Safety and health at work that you will find attached with our 75th Progressive Newsletter.
Each year on 28 April, the ILO promotes occupational safety and health across the globe as part of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Since 2003, when the ILO began observing the day, this event has become one of global importance and is now marked in over 100 ILO member States.
Efforts for prevention through a global strategy should provide decent work for all, under safe and healthy conditions. There is no compromise for the right for a safe and healthy work. And we should not forget that good safety and health is good business.
Takis A. Haggiandreou
Director
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Companies with occupational safety and health and management systems have good records both in safety and productivity. |
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