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“Social” mortality 50 times as high as “occupational”

03 July, 00:00

As Stanislav Tkachuk, chairman of the Labor Safety Committee of Ukraine, noted, safety requires strictness and adherence to principles. Especially now that the conditions for labor and everyday life are worsening, while the level of injuries and occupational diseases rises with every passing year. Thus, in the first six months of this year, as was pointed out at an extended session of the Labor Safety Committee board, more than 18,000 workers were injured, and 665 of them died. Over the past ten years, 74,000 instances of occupational diseases have been recorded, while 24% of Ukrainians work in conditions that do not meet public- hygiene requirements.

The highest rate of injuries is observed in coal-mining and agriculture (each sector has claimed 190 human lives since the beginning of the year), ore-mining, oil and gas production, and metallurgy. The causes are well known: wear-and- tear of equipment, breaches of discipline, obsolete technology, and negligence by enterprise managers. Incidentally, according to the Labor Safety Committee, the rate of injury-related mortality is 2.5 times higher at small, lease-holding and private enterprises.

But a virtual shock was made by the Committee chairman's information that non-occupational accidents have accounted for an estimated 33,500 deaths since the beginning of the year, 50 times as many as in industry. Social diseases have claimed the following number of human lives: suicides accounted for 7,400 deaths, alcohol poisoning for 5,000, and intentional murders for 2,000.

As Stanislav Tkachuk, chairman of the Labor Safety Committee of Ukraine, noted, safety requires strictness and adherence to principles. Especially now that the conditions for labor and everyday life are worsening, while the level of injuries and occupational diseases rises with every passing year. Thus, in the first six months of this year, as was pointed out at an extended session of the Labor Safety Committee board, more than 18,000 workers were injured, and 665 of them died. Over the past ten years, 74,000 instances of occupational diseases have been recorded, while 24% of Ukrainians work in conditions that do not meet public- hygiene requirements.

The highest rate of injuries is observed in coal-mining and agriculture (each sector has claimed 190 human lives since the beginning of the year), ore-mining, oil and gas production, and metallurgy. The causes are well known: wear-and- tear of equipment, breaches of discipline, obsolete technology, and negligence by enterprise managers. Incidentally, according to the Labor Safety Committee, the rate of injury-related mortality is 2.5 times higher at small, lease-holding and private enterprises.

But a virtual shock was made by the Committee chairman's information that non-occupational accidents have accounted for an estimated 33,500 deaths since the beginning of the year, 50 times as many as in industry. Social diseases have claimed the following number of human lives: suicides accounted for 7,400 deaths, alcohol poisoning for 5,000, and intentional murders for 2,000.

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