Work more than 55 hours a week kills all over the world 745,000 people every year. Days such as those reported by subcontracted employees in the Camp Nou works to EL PERIÓDICO are one of the highest risk factors detected by the International Labor Organization (ILO), according to its report published this Monday. If all types of accidents and illnesses related to work are added, almost three million employed people lose their lives each year during their work day or due to ailments generated during work. And it is that he 6.7% of the people who die each year around the globe do so because of a workplace accident.
The ILO presented its document “A call for safer and healthier work environments” this Monday in Sydney, within the framework of the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work. In it, he urges the States to act and maximize their efforts to put an end to accidents at work, which in Spain last year claimed a total of 826 lives in Spain, according to data collected by the Ministry of Labor. At the moment, during the first three quarters of this year, the labor authority estimates a total of 524 deaths in work accidents.
“A safe and healthy environment at work is not only a fundamental right, but a basic requirement to achieve sustainable and inclusive economic growth, with maximum productivity and dignity at work for everyone,” says the ILO in its document.
From the entity directed by Gilbert F. Houngbo They warn that workplace accidents are just the tip of the iceberg, since the majority of people who end up dying as a result of their professional performance are due to ailments generated over years and years of exposure to it. Whether developing cancer, a circulatory disease or chronic obstruction of the lungs, among others.
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And losing one’s life is the most fatal of consequences, but not the only result of insufficient prevention. The ILO estimates that 395 million workers worldwide suffered non-fatal workplace injuries. In this sense, the accident rate is much higher among men than among women, given that they still occupy the most dangerous sectors, such as construction or agriculture.
Work (or rather the risks associated with it) take years off of life. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the ILO have developed an index that measures how many years of life employees lose due to issues such as injuries derived from their work (26.44 million days), working more than 55 hours a day (23.26 million days), suffering from ergonomic factors (12.27 million days) or being exposed to gases and fumes (10.86 million days).