May 24, 2015

For information - safety statistics by ILO from The Nation, Nigeria

The link to the information is here.
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/6000-die-daily-in-work-related-accidents/

As per ILO, following are the work place related injuries, deaths, accidents and loss.

  1. Every second 15 persons die, 6000 a day and 2 million a year due to accidents/diseases. This data is from reported data. There can be many more.
  2. In addition, 268 million non-fatal accidents and 160 million new cases of work related illness also occur.
  3. The direct and indirect loss due to accidents and diseases is 4% of global gross domestic product or USD 2.8 trillion.