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STORY: ILO / FUTURE OF WORK REPORT
TRT: 2:21
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /SPANISH /NATS
DATELINE: 18 APRIL 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Azzi, Technical Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health, ILO:
“2.78 million people annually die because of their jobs and more than 374 million people are living with different injuries and illnesses due to their job. And most of the deaths are actually due to diseases that are attributable to work.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Azzi, Technical Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health, ILO:
“So, the world of work is changing. We have increased technology, different digitalization, artificial intelligence. Robots are coming into work for us more than ever, automization. This has good effects on the workers that they've been removed from dirty jobs, but also it causes new risks that we did not encounter before.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Azzi, Technical Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health, ILO:
“We work from platform economies. Also, the link between technology and flexible work hours that seem to be great for workers. But at the same time this continued connectivity, excessive working hours, sedentary work are very much linked to the increase in circulatory disease, respiratory diseases and other musculoskeletal diseases and psychosocial risks.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Manal Azzi, Technical Specialist on Occupational Safety and Health, ILO:
“Green jobs that have been introduced that bring with them great opportunities, but risks in terms of new exposures to chemicals and recycling and metal waste and in wind turbines that use specific chemicals that are new and risky to workers. It’s just something we need to keep in mind that although we're moving in a great place, technology is helping in many ways, but also it's a fine line between new risks that are coming out but also balancing where life is and where work is and how safety in health needs to take that into consideration.”
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13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Joaquim Pintado Nunes, Officer in Charge, LadAdmin/OSH Branch, ILO:
“For the ILO, it is very important that the international community, the countries, the companies, the workers are not only aware of the presented problems but to also put in practice programs and actions that would lead to a situation in which today’s high numbers of injuries at work and work-related sickness start to decrease.”
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Changes in working practices, demographics, technology and the environment are creating new occupational safety and health (OSH) concerns, according to a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Growing challenges include psychosocial risks, work-related stress and non-communicable diseases, notably circulatory and respiratory diseases, and cancers.
The report, Safety and Health at the heart of the Future of Work: Building on 100 years of experience, is being published ahead of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, which is marked on April 28th. It reviews the ILO’s 100 years of work on OSH issues, and highlights emerging health and safety issues in the world of work.
Currently, more than 374 million people are injured or made ill every year through work-related accidents. It is estimated that work days lost to OSH-related causes represent almost 4 per cent of global GDP, in some countries as much as 6 per cent, the Report says.
