ILO REPORT
May 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLINSURANCE companies are being unnecessarily exposed to risk through employment accident policies because of the estimated two million workers who die annually through job-related accidents or diseases, eighty per cent of which are preventable, the International Labour Organisation has claimed.Releasing a report for the 16th World Congress of Occupational Safety and Health at Work, which was held in Vienna last week, the UN agency has produced an analysis of which regions and economic sectors pose the greatest risk of accidents to workers and also ...
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