Sustainability in Safety Applications

Global Data – International Labor Organization, Safety and Health at Work web page, September 2015:
 

• Ÿ Every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease.
• Ÿ Every 15 seconds, 153 workers have a work-related accident.
• Ÿ Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases, more than 2.3 million deaths per year.
• Ÿ 317 million accidents occur on the job annually, many of these resulting in extended absences from work.
• Ÿ The human cost of this daily adversity is vast and the economic burden of poor occupational safety and health practices is estimated at 4% of Global Gross Domestic Product each year.

 
U.S. Data – Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Bureau of Labor Statistics 2013 workplace fatality data:
 

• Ÿ 4,585 workers were killed on the job in 2013, on average, 88 a week or more than 12 deaths every day.
• Ÿ Out of 4,101 worker fatalities in private industry in 2013, 828 or 20.2% were in construction, that is, one in five worker deaths last year were in construction.
• Ÿ The leading causes of worker deaths on construction sites were falls, followed by struck by object, electrocution and caught-in/between. These “Fatal Four” were responsible for more than half (57.7%) the construction worker deaths in 2013 (Falls – 302 out of 828 total deaths in construction in 2013 (36.5%), Struck by Object – 84 (101%), Electrocutions – 71 (8.6%), Caught in/between – 21 (2.5%)).