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OSHE SURVEY REPORT
ON WORKPLACE ACCIDENT & VIOLATION

(Period : January- June 2010)
 

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As a specialized Labor Foundation, Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE) revealed a statistics on workplace accident and workers’ rights violation after monitoring fifteen national daily newspapers. It is found that some 1310 workers were killed and 899 others injured in various work related incidents across the country on this year from 1 January to 30 June 2010.Of the total, highest number of causalities took place in the transport sector (628) followed by garment sector (369), Agriculture & fishery sector (202), day laborer (184) and construction sector (110).

It was found in the survey that, 456 workers were killed and 356 critically injured at workplace incidents (i.e. fall from height, electrocution, suffocation, firing, explosion etc.) due to unsafe work environment.
A group of 243 workers killed and 341 injured at work in relation to different workers rights violations (i.e. physical assault by employers/management, police action, attack by the miscreants etc). Some 233 workers were killed and 53 others injured in incidents while traveling to and from the workplaces.


 
It is also revealed in the survey that, low enforcement of exiting labour law (BLA-2006) at workplaces, weak labour inspections, lack of awareness, sensitization and health and safety training among workers, absence of OSH committee at workplaces level, lack of decent wage and defective industrial relations were some of the key causes for growing occupational accidents, workers rights violations and labour unrests in the country.
 
Source:
15 daily national news paper (i.e. The Daily Ittefaque, The Daily Janakantha, The Daily Jugantor, The Daily Inquilab, The Daily Sangbad, The Noya Diganta, The Amar Des, The Samokal, The Jai Jai Din, The Financial Express, The Kaler Kantha, The Independent, The New Age, The Destiny and The Daily Star

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For more information: A.R. Chowdury REPON, OSHE
E-mail: oshe@agni.com
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