Occupational safety and health - Statistics

• Every three and a half minutes, someone dies in the European Union because of non-compliance with work safety rules. More specifically, it is about 150,000 deaths per year, 8900 due to work accidents and 142,000 as a result of illness.
• 1/3 of employees in Europe are exposed to dangerous levels of noise in at least one quarter of the time they spend at work.
• Stress is the cause of millions of lost working days each year. Nearly one in three workers in Europe say that he experienced stress at work.
• Each year, 4.5 million injuries result in the incapacity of employees to work more than three days, it means a loss of almost 146 million working days per year.

Source: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

https://osha.europa.eu/ro/press/press-releases

Published: 15.01.2013