Reports and Indices
Report by ILO
- According to the report by International Labour Organization (ILO) titled ‘A Call for Safer and Healthier Working Environments’, nearly 30 lakh workers die every year globally due to work-related accidents and diseases.
- More than 63% of these deaths are reported from the Asia-Pacific region.
- Exposure to long working hours (55 hours or more per week) was the biggest “killer”, with almost 7.45 lakh people dying of it in 2016, followed by exposure to occupational particulate matter, gases, and fumes (4.5 lakh deaths) and occupational injuries (3.63 lakh deaths).
- India has not ratified the two ILO conventions, namely:
- ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention
- Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006.
