{"id":405443,"date":"2024-11-19T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/19\/sicurezza-ue-lavoro-morti-infortuni-2022\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T13:58:19","slug":"work-related-deaths-continue-in-the-eu-over-3-thousand-victims-and-nearly-3-million-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/19\/work-related-deaths-continue-in-the-eu-over-3-thousand-victims-and-nearly-3-million-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-related deaths continue in the EU. Over 3 thousand victims and nearly 3 million injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – European occupational safety still has flaws. In 2022, over 3 thousand fatalities and nearly 3 million non-fatal accidents<\/strong>, with a ratio of about 905 non-fatal accidents for every fatal one<\/strong>.\u00a0According to Eurostat<\/a>, there has been a progressive decrease compared with previous years, based on administrative data from the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The definition of an accident at work<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0an\u00a0event\u00a0during the course of work which leads to physical or mental harm, and fatal ones result in the death of the victim within one year<\/strong>. Although non-fatal accidents are less serious, they still\u00a0cause substantial damage\u00a0to victims and their families, as in the case of injuries that cause permanent disabilities.<\/p>\n

Between 2021 and 2022, there was an increase in the total number of non-fatal occupational accidents in the EU<\/strong>, some 87,139 more, or\u00a0a 3 percent increase. The rise also reflects the easing or elimination of restrictions associated with Covid-19. Despite this, we see a 61 decrease in<\/strong> fatal accidents in 2022 compared to the previous year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At a\u00a0country level<\/a>,\u00a0Germany leads the way in non-fatal injuries, with over 700,000 victims<\/strong>, followed by France, Spain, and Italy<\/strong>, which has over 330,000 workers involved. There was a negative record<\/a> of fatalities in\u00a0France<\/strong>, with\u00a0over 600 victims,\u00a0followed by Italy, Spain, and Germany<\/strong>, which continue to remain the top four nations in the ranking.<\/p>\n

However, the number of accidents varies greatly depending on\u00a0the type of economic activity.<\/strong> \u00a0Overall, mos<\/strong>t\u00a0of them involve men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Construction, transportation and storage, manufacturing,\u00a0agriculture<\/strong>, forestry, and fishing<\/strong>\u00a0account for 65.5 percent of fatal accidents<\/strong>\u00a0and 43 percent of non-fatal ones. Almost a quarter of work-related fatalities<\/strong> are in the construction sector alone<\/strong>, an element that should make Europeans reflect on the safety of workers and especially the need for prevention. Non-fatal accidents were relatively common in the manufacturing sector<\/strong> (18 percent of the total in the EU in 2022), followed by health care and social work, construction, and trade. These four sectors are the only ones for which double-digit shares of the total number of non-fatal accidents were recorded.<\/p>\n

The gender imbalance <\/strong>can be explained by\u00a0the fact that the sectors most exposed to risk <\/strong>have a higher proportion of male workers,<\/strong>\u00a0with approximately two\u00a0out of three\u00a0accidents<\/strong> in the EU\u00a0involving male workers in 2022<\/strong>. The proportion of\u00a0women and men in the workforce and their different roles must also be considered, given\u00a0the imbalanced conditions in the labor market, as also seen by the gender pay gap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the perspective of the European Union, there is\u00a0extensive regulation of the labor market<\/strong> and the quality of workers’ lives. Equally important are\u00a0work-related psychological disorders<\/strong>, such as burnout, which have a significant impact on workers but are\u00a0not included\u00a0in these statistics (but\u00a0are\u00a0recognized at the community level<\/a>).<\/p>\n

From the Treaties up to the 1989 Framework Directive (89\/391\/EEC)<\/a>, the EU has put much\u00a0effort into\u00a0labor and worker protection. The guiding principle of\u00a0European rules states that “the employer has a duty to ensure <\/strong>the health and\u00a0<\/strong>safety of workers in every\u00a0aspect related to work, while\u00a0the worker has a duty to follow the employer’s instructions <\/strong>on health and safety,\u00a0and<\/strong> to report potential hazards<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Mutual compliance would be desirable to reduce the number of accidents to the so-called “Vision Zero<\/a>” featured in the 2021-2027 European Strategy\u00a0 and to protect “the health and safety of the EU’s nearly 170 million workers<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With a ratio of about 905 non-fatal injuries for every fatal injury, the EU continues to have to work to protect workers. Sharp rise in the construction sector; over 2 out of 3 accidents involve men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7877,"featured_media":271633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25746,27561,29721,27029,29722,28222,26444],"class_list":["post-405443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-accidentsat","tag-safety-work-en","tag-morti-sul-lavoro-en","tag-statistiche-en","tag-statistics-en","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405500,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405443\/revisions\/405500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}