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1,138 Workers Die In First Eight Months Of 2015

05.09.2015 14:52

A total of 1,138 people died in work-related accidents in the first eight months of 2015, a report released by the İstanbul Council for Workers' Health and Work Safety (İSİG) on Thursday said.İSİG is a nongovernmental organization that is working to increase workplace safety. A total of 158 workers,

A total of 1,138 people died in work-related accidents in the first eight months of 2015, a report released by the İstanbul Council for Workers' Health and Work Safety (İSİG) on Thursday said.
İSİG is a nongovernmental organization that is working to increase workplace safety. A total of 158 workers, including 10 children, died in August according to İSİG, of whom 151 were male and seven female. While 129 workers died in August 2013, the figure increased to 160 in the same month of 2014.
The causes of death were mostly traffic accidents, being trapped in rubble, falling from heights and electrocution. In addition, the industries and provinces with the highest number of fatal accidents were construction, transportation and agriculture and İzmir, Antalya, İstanbul, Konya, Ankara and Bursa, respectively.
The report said while worker deaths are largely preventable, the government writes off the reasons for accidents as human error by employees, and employers refuse to take measures because they do not want their operations to be restricted by certain rules that prevent work accidents.
Among the measures supported by İSİG to prevent more fatal work accidents are ensuring that politicians, employers and bureaucrats responsible for deaths are tried in court, the government closing down workplaces that are unsafe and ending the pressure on workers from forming and supporting labor unions.
At the beginning of 2015, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security said 1,570 workers were killed in job-related accidents last year, but that was well below the figure released by İSİG -- 1,886 -- raising concerns that the ministry was not providing the correct figures.
The government had announced measures ranging from fines to prison terms for those found liable in fatal workplace accidents six months after the Soma disaster, which claimed the lives of 301 miners in Soma in May 2014. But most labor unions said these measures do not go far enough in addressing the safety flaws at workplaces and accuse the government of showing too much tolerance for employers who fail to take the necessary precautions to prevent laborers from being hurt or killed. (Cihan/Today’s Zaman)



 
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