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Workplace Deaths

Construction workers make up 50pc of victims: Survey

UNB, Dhaka
About 50 percent of the total workplace deaths in the country' in 2007 took place in the construction sector, which is having a boom-time through a rather random growth.
Ihe finding was disclosed
yesterday in Bangladesh Worker Safety Programme (BWSP) survey report titled 'Workplace Deaths in the Industrial and Service Sectors of Bangladesh 2007'.
BWSP, Bangladesh Occupational Safety. Health and Environment
Foundation (OSHE) and Bangladesh Institute of labour Studies (BILS) jointly conducted the survey through monitoring 17 national newspapers and separate investiga-tionson theincidents.
This is first of its kind in the country as it sets out the circumstances of all 222 deaths -who, when and how the workers died.
It shows that a total of 164 separate incidents resulted in 222 deaths in die country. Of the worker deaths, 103 were in the construction sector. In addition, there were 63 deaths in manufacturing sector while 42 in the service sector.
Almost half of the reported deaths (84) took place in Dhaka district though there were sizeable numbers reported in Chittagong (34), Narayanganj (18) and Gazipur (11) district.
It says only 14 of die 222 workers who died were women, which means 6 percent. Sixty-four percent (115) of the 188 deceased workers (whose ages could be identified^ were 30 -yeast ritbwigifr irtf^nfost one-fifth of all the workers who died were under the age of 20.
It observes that the most common causes of all deaths were 'electrocution* (54) and 'falls from heights' (38).
Commenting at the launch of the report, BWSP director David Bergman said most workplace deaths are not reported in national newspapers. "The deaths set out in the survey report simply represent a small tip of a large iceberg,” he said.
However, he said the report provides useful information for those concerned to improve workplace conditions and should in particular act as a 'wakeup call’ for developers and contractors in the constructionsector.
He mentioned that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that in the industrial and service sectors in the country there are likely to be 1700 worker deaths each year.
This report concerns deaths of workers at the workplace arising out of issues relating to occupational heilih ahtUif&y and concerned with the management of tn Avork.