דו"ח תאונות עבודה 2009-2013: ענף הבינוי הוא הקטלני ביותר

  By  Alon Aharonov,  CEO of Makuti, and Makuti's team

4 billion NIS for work injuries

On May 25, 2014, the Safety and Health Administration of the Ministry of Economy published the report "  Occupational accidents  in Israel: situation picture 2009-2013". The report focuses on fatal accidents.

The report was born as a result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Economy and the Research and Planning Director of the National Insurance Institute. The report shows that in 2013 about 4 billion NIS were paid in pensions to work-injured people, of which the vast majority (about 2.7 billion) was through disability pensions. These amounts do not include the damages caused to the workplaces themselves and other expenses. It can also be seen that there has been an increase in the number of injury compensation recipients in recent years:  from 65,052 in 2009 to 69,636 in 2012.

The report shows that between the years 2009-2012, 58% of the injuries in the workplace occurred in three main sectors of the economy. In the industry industry, about 18% of the injuries occurred on average, in the trade industry about 15% of the injuries on average, followed by the construction industry where about 12% of the injuries occurred In addition, it can be seen that from 2009 to 2012 there is an increasing trend in the number of recipients of injury fees in these industries.

The construction industry: the deadliest

The report shows that the main and leading cause of work accidents in the industrial sector is a "falling body". In the commercial sector and the construction sector, the main cause of non-fatal accidents is a "fall". Typical accidents are falling from scaffolding, roofs, ladders, sheds, through lighting openings in roofs and falls For open shafts In the construction industry as a whole it can be seen that 12% of the accidents resulted from electrocution, 24% as a result of being hit by a moving object and 6% as a result of collapse or collapse.

The fourth most common factor in all industries is "overexertion". Other causes of accidents are entrapment, pressure from the body and machines and tools. For example, typical accidents are mainly due to a load or a part of a machine that hits a worker.

In 2013, there were 59 fatal work accidents and 62 workers were killed. This is a 3.2% increase compared to the number of fatalities for 2012. Also, in recent years there has been an upward trend in the average number of fatalities in work accidents in Israel.

The deadliest industry is the construction industry: in 2013, 32 workers were killed in it, accounting for 52% of all fatalities in all accidents that year. In the construction industry, the chance of an employee finding his death is at least three times higher than his colleague in the employment industry.

In second place in the number of fatal accidents is the industry branch, which also has a 12.5% ​​increase in the number of fatal accidents. In this industry, 50% of accidents result from being hit by a moving object, 19% as a result of suffocation or poisoning, 7% as a result of entrapment. Other factors are vehicles, electrocution, explosions and falling from a height.

Foreign workers are killed more

The report states that in the construction industry most of the fatalities, about 63%, are contractor workers compared to 37% who are company employees. The industry is especially deadly for foreign workers and 53.1% of the fatalities in the construction industry are not Israeli workers. In the industry industry, on the other hand, the number of fatalities The largest is among company employees and is about 69%, compared to 31% of contractor employees. The industry claimed mainly the lives of Israelis and their number out of all accidents is about 81%, compared to about 19% among foreign workers.