LAB, ESK, STEILAS, EHNE/ETXALDE and HIRU, among others, have demanded that the government classify psychosocial diseases as professional and that the number of labor inspectors be multiplied.
A total of 59 people They died in 2023 work accident in Hego Euskal Herria, according to the report released by the LAB, ESK, STEILAS, EHNE/ETXALDE and HIRU unions during a press conference on Thursday.
Of the 59 deaths, 20 were non-traumatic accidents; 9 as a result of beatings and abuse; 7 ‘on a journey’; 6 for falls from height; 3 due to poisoning and 3 due to assault or suicide at work.
The unions mentioned have identified themselves as most ‘critical’ labor sectors when you have an accident industry (with 18 deaths), the transport (with 10), workers outsourced (9) and the build (with 6).
In the first month of 2024, 13 deaths were registered, according to the same source, indicating an increasing trend.
As they have emphasized, the official figures on the other hand, indicate that the number of employees who died last year is 33.
According to the centers, this difference is explained by the actions of the administration “accepts the data provided by companies and mutual societies as valid”at the same time that “deaths ‘in itinere’ are hidden by not considering them as work-related deaths”.
As for diseases, the report notes that psychosocial circumstances “are increasingly common”, especially in the most feminized sectors, and this situation causes “an increase in non-traumatic deaths”.
After emphasizing that mutual societies have not recognized any social case as an employment contingencythe unions have criticized the fact that these companies are “business associations” that “cause fraud with shameful under-reporting of occupational diseases.”
As an example, they cited that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 30 and 40% of all cancers can be caused by work and that only 20% of all deaths are caused by traumatic accidents, while 80% could be caused through work. result from work-related illnesses.
For this reason, the unions demand that the administration psychosocial illnesses as professionalsThat multiply the number of inspectors labor, and that put an end to employers’ ‘impunity’ through, among other things, a ‘hard coercion campaign’.
Source: EITB
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