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    :: Thursday, February 24, 2005 ::

    TWO MILLION KILLED AT WORK EACH YEAR Hazards Magazine and WHIN
    Two million killed. Two hundred and seventy millions injured in work accidents. If terrorism took such a toll, just imagine what would be said and done. Yet this workplace tragedy rarely hits the headlines.

    Fatalities are not fated. Accidents don't just happen. They are caused. Cancer - for example caused by asbestos, other carcinogenic dusts and chemicals and ionizing radiation - is the biggest factor in work-related deaths (an estimated 32 per cent), followed by circulatory diseases (23 per cent - caused for example by night and shift work, stress, some chemicals and second hand tobacco smoke at workplaces, accidents (19 per cent and communicable diseases (17 per cent). These figures are quite different in various parts of the world: accident rates, for example, are very high in the Asian tiger economies. Furthermore, accidents occur to relatively young people causing a major burden of lost work and life years.
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