China steekt 65 miljard euro in veiligere arbeidsomstandigheden

In de afgelopen jaren zijn dodelijke bedrijfsongevallen een ernstig probleem geworden voor de Chinese industrie die het tempo van de groeiende economie moeilijk kan volgen.
De chinese overheid gaat fors investeren (65 miljard euro) in veiligheid op het werk de komende 5 jaar om het aantal dodelijke bedrijfsongevallen drastisch te beperken. Afgelopen jaar vonden 127.000 mensen de dood op hun werk. Er waren 17 incidenten die meer dan 30 slachtoffers eisten en 73 met meer dan 10 slachtoffers!!
Het doel van deze forse investering is om het jaarlijks aantal doden van 3,8 op de 100.000 medewerkers terug te brengen naar 2,8.

China to Spend $60 Billion on Workplace Safety, News Agency Says – 08/30/2006 The Chinese government said it will invest nearly $60 billion in workplace safety over the next 5 years, in an effort to "reduce the country’s notorious industrial accident rate," the state-run Xinhua news agency reported earlier this week.
China has earmarked 467.4 billion yuan (U.S. $58.8 billion) for nine safety projects, with coal mine safety being the No. 1 priority, according to Xinhua.
Last year, approximately 127,000 workers in China died on the job, and there were 17 incidents with death tolls exceeding 30, according to Xinhua. Over the past decade in China, coal mine accidents have accounted for 58 percent of the serious accidents in which more than 30 people died.
The State Administration of Work Safety told Xinhua the plan aims to reduce the number of accidents with more than 10 deaths by at least 20 percent. China reported 73 such cases last year.
Another objective of the plan is to reduce the accident death rate per 100,000 workers from 3.85 in 2005 to 2.8 in 2010 in the mining sector and other industries.
The plan’s strategies include safety training, monitoring of potential accidents and encouraging the reporting of illegal conduct.
One goal of the 5-year plan – which is the first of its kind in China, according to Xinhua – is to reduce the death rate per 100 million yuan (U.S. $12.6 million) of gross domestic product from 0.70 last year to 0.45 in 2010.
Workplace accidents have become a serious problem for Chinese businesses, which have been straining to keep pace with the production demands of a booming economy.
- Josh Cable

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