Work-related illnesses and injuries kill nearly two million people annually, largely due to long working hours, the UN said.
GENEVA - Work-related illnesses and injuries kill nearly two million people annually, largely due to long working hours, the UN said on Friday, warning that the pandemic was likely to worsen the situation.
Exposure to long working hours, defined as working 55 hours a week or more, was deemed responsible for some 750,000 deaths in 2016, the report said. "It's shocking to see so many people literally being killed by their jobs," Tedros said, describing the report as"a wake-up call to countries and businesses to improve and protect the health and safety of workers."The report found that non-communicational diseases accounted for a full 82 percent of work-related deaths in 2016, with the greatest cause of death being chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which killed 415,000 people that year.
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