2024-07-10 15:30:05
CEvery day, more than two workers die from work accidents in France, more than 1,500 work accidents lead to work stoppages and more than 120 new diseases caused by professional work are recognized and compensated by Disease Prevention. For many French people, work is a source of danger and illness. It is perfectly possible to improve this situation and thus open the horizon of basic social victory for many fellow citizens, especially from the working classes.
These figures should raise awareness about the state of working conditions, especially since they have shown a worrying stability for more than ten years and consider the real impact of working conditions on workers’ health. Each year, less than 300 diseases are actually recognized as occupational diseases – apart from those linked to exposure to asbestos – while the most careful epidemiologists estimate that the number of diseases that in the work relationship is at least twenty times; report of Public health Francepublished in April 2023, shows that unrecognized ethical practices, starting with mental torture, continue to increase.
The problem goes beyond just the experience of illness: according to figures from the Ministry of Labor, 37% of employed French workers announce their employment “untouchable”in that they do not feel that they can last until retirement.
silent torture
These figures also hide deep social inequalities when it comes to the possibility of being able to make one’s work a factor in personal health development. It was the working classes that were hit the hardest: construction workers, home help, in the staff and agri-food industry, temporary workers, employees of subcontracting companies in industry or logistics … A silent punishment because it is killed and saved, which feeds social resentment and its political expression.
The health system of our work, the main pillar of social status, created at the end of the 19th century, is in crisis. Moral distress, work-related suicides, psychosocial risks, burn-out, poor performance… The numbers have been increasing for more than two years and the professional associations that have right for these cases, work medicine and work inspection first and foremost, undergo regular reforms, which have been intended, allegedly, to make them work more effectively, but their reduce the number and methods. It has also been twenty years since we noticed the weak effects of these reforms as well as the slow progress of the culture of prevention in organizations, etc.
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