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The Costs of Work Accidents and Occupational Diseases (2005-2014)
(Politik Ekonomik ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi, 2017) Bekar, İlter; Oruç, Deniz; Bekar, Ebru
This study aims to calculate visible and hidden costs of work accidents and occupational diseases occurred in Turkey in between 2005-2014 and to reveal the factors affecting these costs. It was tried to calculate the progress of work accidents and occupational diseases in Turkey and their burden to country economy based on published data gathered from annual statistics of Ministry of Labor and Social Security within the years 2005-14. In calculations of total cost to economy, the total inability duration was multiplied by average daily labor wages. In between 2005-14 there occurred 990,587 work accidents and 12,617 workers lost their lives due to these accidents. In this period 5,709 workers contracted occupational diseases and 56 of them lost their lives. As the number of days lost due to work accidents and occupational diseases are considered, in between 2005-14, there happened a total loss of 18,464,857 working days, 582,774 days of which corresponds to the days passed in hospital. The economic burden of work accidents and occupational diseases to national economy in the last 10 years were calculated to be 67,887,000,000 TL