OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS IN OECD COUNTRIES

Chapter 4 OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS IN OECD COUNTRIES A. INTRODUCTION : HEALTH AND SAFETY AS POLICY CONCERNS Employment is more than simply a contract to render services in return for payment. In modern industry, it often involves working within an organ- isation, and hence working under the conditions which that organisation imposes. Too often in the past, these conditions included considerable OCCUPATIONAL risk, and indeed a high incidence of workplace injury and death. This chapter presents information on the cur- rent-day situation in OECD COUNTRIES with respect to fatal and non-fatal OCCUPATIONAL injuries, unfore- seen and sometimes violent events arising from work situations which may cause cuts, burns, fractures, loss of limb, eyesight or hearing and, in the extreme, of life itself. Thc data prcscntcd in this chapter indicate that every year, a total of over 10 million OCCUPATIONAL injurics lcading to absence from work arise amongst the 300 million employees in the OECD areal.

cost of regulations outweigh their benefits, this pro- cess has not been reversed to date. The accompanying note on the Economics of Occupational Safety addresses these issues furthcr. This chapter presents available data on the evo- lution of occupational injuries in OECD Member

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