IWMD 2021

EVERY DAY, 7,600 WORKERS DIE OF WORK ACCIDENTS OR DISEASE

EVERY WEEK, 5,000 PEOPLE DIE FROM LUNG DISEASE OR CANCER DUE TO EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS

IN SOUTH ASIA, AROUND 4,500 WORKERS DIE EACH YEAR IN BUILDING COLLAPSES - ABOUT 2,600 IN INDIA ALONE

EVERY DAY, 410 CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE KILLED AT WORK

20,000 WORKERS AT AMAZON US CAUGHT COVID-19. AMAZON WORKERS NEED UNIONS.

EVERY MINUTE, 730 PEOPLE ARE POISONED BY PESTICIDES

WORLDWIDE, ONE HEALTH WORKER DIES FROM COVID-19 EVERY 30 MINUTES

With 2.78 million people each year dying from work-related illness and injury even before the pandemic, the picture is now bleaker than at any time in recent history. Now is the time for governments and employers to elevate the status of occupational health and safety to the level of a fundamental right at work.

Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary

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ITUC Maggiore

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