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OSHE SURVEY REPORT ON WORKPLACE ACCIDENT & VIOLATION

(Period : January- April 2010)
 

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As a specialized Labor Foundation, Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE) revealed a statistics on workplace accident and workers’ rights violation after monitoring sixteen national daily newspapers. It is found that some 897 workers were killed and 663 others injured in various work related incidents across the country on this year from 1 January 2010 to 30 April 2010.Of the total, highest number of causalities took place in the transport sector (457) followed by garment sector (275), Agriculture sector (144), construction sector (133) and Ship breaking (14).
It is also found in the survey that, 546 workers were killed and 360 critically injured at workplace accident due to unsafe work environment, a group of 201 workers killed and 267 injured at work in relation to different workers rights violations (i.e. physical assault by employers/management, police action etc). Some 150 workers were killed and 36 others injured in incidents while traveling to and from the workplaces
 
It is also revealed in the survey that, low enforcement of exiting labour law (BLA-2006) at workplaces, weak labour inspections, lack of awareness, sensitization and health and safety training among workers, absence of OSH committee at workplaces level, lack of decent wage and defective industrial relations were some of the key causes for growing occupational accidents, workers rights violations and labour unrests in the country.
 
Source:
The Daily Ittefaque, The Daily Janakantha, The Daily Jugantor, The Daily Inquilab, The Daily Sangbad, Amader Samay, Noya Diganta, Amar Des, The Daily Bhorer Kagoj, The Jai Jai Din, The Financial Express, The Kaler Kantha, The Independent, The New Age, The Destiny and The Daily Star.

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For more information: A.R. Chowdury REPON, OSHE
E-mail: oshe@agni.com
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