Industrial scale slaughter

[Young Master Smeet]

http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-are-work-related-deaths-in-decline-33553

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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the regulatory agency with primary responsibility for enforcing health and safety law across British workplaces, has released its latest annual statistics. According to their break down of the key figures: “The statistics show that, in 2013-14, there were 133 fatal injuries – a fall from 150 the previous year.”

That is, within 3 years, more people will die at work than soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan.  As the article notes, this is a huge underestimate of the numbers killed by work.

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“There were 264 members of the public fatally injured in accidents connected to work in 2013-14. Of these deaths, 194 (73%) related to incidents occurring on railways.”

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the biggest omission are the deaths of those who die while driving as a normal part of their work: another 800 to 1,000 deaths a year. This includes those who deliver “meals on wheels”, district nurses, postal workers and lorry drivers, but because such deaths are recorded as “road traffic” rather than occupational fatalities, they don’t make the figure recorded in the annual statistics.

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“Around 13,000 deaths each year from occupational lung disease and cancer are estimated to have been caused by past exposure, primarily to chemicals and dust at work.”

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Another UK study estimated up to 40,000 annual deaths in Britain were caused by work-related cancers alone. And long-term research by the Hazards movement, drawing on a range of studies of occupational and environmental cancers, the number of heart-disease deaths with a work-related cause, as well as estimates of other diseases to which work can be a contributory cause, showed a lower-end estimate of 50,000 deaths from work-related illness in the UK each year.

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[J Surman]

Posted 31st Oct here: http://www.socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com.tr/2014/10/work-related-deaths-uk-official-figures.html

[alanjjohnstone]

Our blogs has repeatedly over the years posted on a much wider H and S issue that effects many peoples lives – shift working –  that seems to be continually ignored by business. The facts are in and it is proven that it is detrimental to workers physical and mental well-being. I have argued when working that it is not at all difficult for those industries with occupational pensions to actually produce statistics on life expectancy differences for shift and non shift workers (as well as manual and non-manual labour) and i have always wondered why the unions have never ever pressed for these figures to be produced. It is just a matter of giving an actuary the task of collating the information.

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