the alarming reality of occupational diseases and injuries is an urgency at political, healthcare and corporate level, to be addressed by employers and workers together to help in reducing pressure on health systems, rebalancing productivity levels and protecting household incomes.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in conjunction with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reports that nearly 2 million people die each year from work-related causes, most of which are due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, according to WHO/ILO estimates in the Global Monitoring Report 2000-2016:
Exposure to long working hours is the key risk, as it is responsible for some 750,000 deaths.
The burden of occupational diseases attributable to the inhalation of particles, gases and fumes is 450,381 deaths and 10.86 million DALYs (Disability-adjusted life years, i.e. a measure of the overall severity of an illness, expressed as the number of years lost due to it, to disability or premature death).
These deaths and DALYs occur as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease DISEASE, and have decreased by 4.9% (from 473,725) and 1.8% (from 11.05 million), respectively, since 2000.
To significantly contribute to the reduction of these mortalities it is necessary to implement occupational safety and health systems to make them strong, effective and sustainable by referring to international labour standards and WHO/ILO tools and guidelines.
The Global Monitoring Report 2000-2016 sets out for each risk factor a unique set of preventive actions to be practised:
In particular, prevention of harm from occupational exposure to particulates, gases and fumes could be achieved through interventions that introduce engineering controls, such as physical filtering or segregation of the emission source, or the application of general, local and specialised ventilation and dust suppression techniques.
According to the Global Monitoring Report, workers in every sector are at risk from inhalation of particulates, gases and fumes.
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