cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/28430041
La France détient un triste record européen d’accidents mortels au travail
Let’s assume Malta has 20 000 employed workers. One single deadly incident in 2022 means they now have 5 per 100 000!
Malta has a population of ~ 500000, i.e. a working-age population of ~ 300000.
Such numbers are not very meaningful if you don’t have any context how these accidents happened imho. You also need to apply a much longer time frame if you want make any inferences. For example, one incident such as an explosion in a big factory could dramatically increase the number of a country’s fatal occupational injuries or deaths dramatically. It may also depend on the industries in a country (some industries bear a higher risk of deadly accidents than others).
In 2023, the year after the linked statistics, Malta’s fatal accidents went down 1.65, for example.
It would also be good to have a global comparison, not in the least because many European companies produce in factories in the Global South, but most governments in Asia, Africa, and South America don’t release any data, unfortunately.
Also 2022 falls within the Covid pandemic. It wouldn’t surprise me if countries varied in how they classified fatal infections of medical and care workers and such as workplace accidents.
Had to check the UK cos not on this list. Looks like we’re not too bad (0.41 in 2022/23)
/j It’s impressive how they manage it, given that they spend most of the time striking!
Maybe that’s why they strike so much.
If you knew the French police you’d know that striking is in fact quite prone to accidents
I am sceptical of this… most likely the definition is slightly different between the countries and that causes most of the difference. Like for example one country might count car accidents that happen during working hours into it, while another one might not consider that a workplace accident.
In addition in most countries cases are pretty low and a single incident (maybe involving several deaths) will skew the numbers a lot.
In France a workplace accident is an accident that happens during the work hours, on the work place. If your work requires you driving it is a workplace accident, but only on the work hours. If you are driving back home or driving to the restaurant for your meal it is not an other type of accident. I don’t know for other countries.
In Germany, the travel to and from work is considered part of the work. If you have an accident, it would be a work accident.
In France it is another type of accident “work commute accident”
In Italy is considered an accident at work if it occurs in the 30 minutes or an hour (it depends on the distance) before the start of working hours and in the 30 minutes or an hour (again, the distance) after the end of working hours, but only on the way between the workplace and home. Anyway, it could not be considered as a work accident if you could have used a bike or public transport, but you have a car accident. Insurance company are quite powerful here, as you can see.
What’s going on in Malta?
Choking on maltesers?
Kinda curious why so little happen in the Netherlands
Me too, there is a saying in Dutch for the not so bright which translates to ‘they got a wack from the mill’, even though that barely happens anymore. Don’t think that explains anything though.
