In Brazil, an average of seven people per day die from accidents at work, according to a survey by the Jorge Duprat Figueiredo Foundation for Occupational Safety and Medicine (Fundacentro). The federal autarchy has been developing research in the field of work safety for 56 years. April 28 is the National Day in Memory of Victims of Occupational Accidents and Diseases.
In 2022, 2,500 occupational accidents resulting in death were reported, according to data from the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), made available by the Occupational Safety and Health Observatory. The number is higher than the pre-pandemic period, in 2019, with 2,100 deaths in accidents.
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However, many of the people who lose their lives working do not enter the statistics, according to Fundacentro technologist Marco Bussacos. “You have a lot of informal workers, who are not in the statistics,” he said. Among those most at risk, according to him, are those who work while driving. “Those who are exposed to traffic risks – motorcycle couriers, app drivers – who are not formalized by Social Security”, he adds.
Even among those who are formalized, the so-called commuting accidents, when the person has an accident on the way to work, has a relevant frequency. Among the various elements identified as “agent causing accidents” in the safety observatory system, motorcycles rank first, with a 5% incidence, along with contact with biological material and contaminated people, also with 5%. In absolute numbers, this means that motorcycles were involved in 24,600 accidents at work in 2022.
Hospital care activities are the ones that registered the most accidents in 2022, with 55.7 thousand cases, which represents 12% of the 612.9 thousand accidents recorded last year. Marco Bussacos ponders, however, that the data reflect a little of the culture of this branch of activity. “Traditionally, the hospital sector is more aware of accident records, which is why it is always among the sectors that have more records”, he explains.
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