Injured, sometimes fatally, in road accidents, falls, or by dangerous machinery ... Some 540,000 people were victims of work accidents in 2020, including 550 fatalities, said the Secretary of State in charge of Health at work.
Insisting on the "priority given to prevention" Laurent Pietraszewski presented on Tuesday a roadmap on this subject for the period 2021-2025.
Estimated at nearly one million in 1950, the annual number of accidents in the general sector fell considerably, falling to around 650,000 in the 2010s, in parallel with an increase in the number of working people.
This improvement can be explained in particular by better secure equipment and more protective regulations.
A new 2021-2025 occupational health plan
But for ten years, "the number of accidents and their frequency index have not decreased, except in 2020 when the number of work accidents has been reduced by 17.7%" because of confinements, notes the secretariat. of state.
To cross this “level”, the new 2021-2025 occupational health plan will focus its efforts on vulnerable workers, in particular less experienced young people, who represent 15% of serious or fatal accidents.
This fourth plan will also target the most accident-prone sectors: construction, agriculture, extractive industries and waste management.
The government also intends to step up its action on the environmental risks of employees, in the event of industrial disasters such as the Lubrizol fire, and on sexual violence at work.
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