Fact on safety and health at work ILO

Berikut ini adalah data dari ILO (International Labour Organization) 2009 tentang data keselamatan kerja. Berikut kutipannya.

• The ILO estimates that each year about 2.3 million men and women die from work-related accidents and diseases including close to 360,000 fatal accidents and an estimated 1.95 million fatal workrelated diseases.

• This means that 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.

• In economic terms it is estimated that roughly four per cent of the annual global Gross Domestic Product, or US$1.25 trillion, is siphoned off by direct and indirect costs of occupational accidents and diseases such as lost working time, workers’ compensation, the interruption of production and medical expenses.
  

• Hazardous substances cause an estimated 651,000 deaths, mostly in the developing world. These numbers may be greatly under-estimated due toinadequate reporting and notification systems in many countries.

• Data from a number of industrialized countries show that construction workers are three to four times more likely than other workers to die from accidents at work.
  

• Occupational lung disease in mining and related industries arising from asbestos, coal and silica exposure is still a concern in developed and developing countries. Asbestos alone claims about 100,000 deaths every year and the figure is rising annually

Artinya, rata-rata 6301 meninggal akibat kecelakaan dan penyakit di tempat kerja setiap hari dengan hampir 1783 diantaranya terjadi akibat kecelakaan fatal. Dan jumlah ini bisa bertambah terutama di negara berkembang dimana safety belum menjadi budaya kerja. ILO juga mengatakan bahwa jumlah ini bisa bertambah karena di beberapa negara berkembang sistem pelaporan kecelakaan kerja tidak bisa diakses atau dilaporkan. Juga, kerugian financial yang ditimbulan sangat besar dari kecelakaan tersebut.

Jadi, Masih tidak mau peduli dengan safety?