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The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic has had all kinds of effects and one of them has been to accelerate the takeoff of e-commerce.

In fact, if in the first quarter of 2016

electronic sales in Spain reached 5,414 million, in the second quarter of 2021 they were 13,661 million.

By 2022, the forecast is that this business will grow between 20% and 50%.

Within this boom, and more specifically last mile delivery, there has also been an explosion in food delivery orders:

the famous riders,

of whom before the law that fights against the false self-employed, and from the departure of Spain from Deliveroo,

it was estimated that there were about 30,000.

The vast majority, working on bikes, scooters or scooters.

Four out of 10 accidents

The downside is that this evolution has also been reflected in the figures for workplace accidents.

In this way,

young people between 16 and 30 years old -the majority profile of delivery- do not stop increasing their weight in the total number of occupational traffic accidents and they are the largest group.

Labor traffic accidents.

age distribution

Last year they represented 41.4% of the total claims that occurred in the performance of their work

(on mission);

and almost 30% of those that occurred going to or coming from it (in itinere).

They are between six and three percentage points more than in 2019 and, in mission claims, almost double than in the rest of the ages.

This is how the Observatory of Occupational Accidents in Spain carried out by the mutual Asepeyo, to which more than

2.5 million workers are affiliated, almost 17% of those registered in Social Security.

It is the third edition of this work,

in which the CNAE Foundation (of the driving schools) also collaborates and is backed by the DGT

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Hospitality and then transportation

The investigation says that the employees

who have more accidents are those who are dedicated to the hospitality industry, followed by transport.

A preponderance that occurs both in absolute terms (with 490 and 379 claims during the working day, respectively) and in relation to every 100,000 workers.

“Transport activity has been maintained all the time [since the outbreak of the coronavirus].

And to that has been added the 'boom' of urban delivery companies.

It is about them, and about young people, where we must influence

continuous training and awareness »says Constantino Perea, territorial director of Centro Asepeyo.

Labor traffic accidents.

delivery by vehicle

Although Perea does not dare to propose a cause-effect relationship between the rise in distribution and the accident rate of young people.

"We need to have a normal exercise in terms of mobility, such as 2022, and see it with more perspective."

In addition, he anticipates that they are considering studying these companies independently from next year.

And they also have ahead to delve into the influence of teleworking.

Almost 40% of mortals

Because for Perea, the "critical" data from this year's observatory is the seriousness of traffic-related occupational accidents.

They account for 13% of all labor accidents (12,709 out of almost 94,000), but 39% of l

Labor traffic accidents.

Distribution by days of the week

The fatal ones (35 of 92 deaths) and almost 25% of the very serious ones.

Likewise, if during 2021 work-related accidents increased by 13%, road-type accidents increased by 18% and within these, fatal accidents increased by 38%.

Fridays are the most dangerous days, with 618 mission accidents compared to 500 or less for the rest of the week.

The explanation: accumulated fatigue.

As for the type of vehicle, one in two occurs in a car or a van;

almost another 40% on two or three-wheel vehicles and the remaining 11.8% on a truck.

In almost nine out of 10 cases, the victim is the driver, although pedestrians represent almost 9%.

Labor traffic accidents.

Distribution by regions

Claims in eight out of 10 companies

Together with the Observatory, the CNE Foundation also presented the results of a survey among

153 companies of all sizes, although the majority were those with more than 500 workers (38.5% of the sample)

and those based in Madrid and Barcelona (six out of 10).

The main conclusion of the survey is that the employees of eight out of 10 Spanish companies admit to having suffered

a traffic accident in the last five years.

However, this conclusive data

is not reflected in measures that seek to reduce it.

Or at least, initiatives backed by a certain scientific rigor.

no tracking

And it is that, although the vast majority of companies (87%) are aware of occupational road accidents,

only one in four plans the measures to be taken based on indicators based on objective facts

such as the number of accidents suffered;

the age of the vehicles your employees use;

the sanctions and fines imposed on them or the average annual mileage per person and year on mission.

"That low percentage is surprising, but also that, later,

68% of the companies that take these indicators into account - above all, the number of claims - then forget about them when it comes to monitoring

the measures adopted" and its results, points out Ricardo Gutiérrez-Cortines, director of Companies of the CNAE Foundation.

The work also revealed that 57% of companies plan to do something in the future to end this accident rate.

Although they have to overcome

difficulties when they want to apply and among which "the lack of involvement of the staff, including management" stands out.

Next, there is the lack of resources and the lack of knowledge or lack of information about the levers to use.

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