ABSTRACT
Global estimates of the occurrence and cost of occupational injury are staggering. According to International Labour Office (ILO) estimates, ~250 million accidents resulting in injury occur annually in workplaces worldwide. Of these, 335 000 are fatal accidents, an estimated rate of 14 per 100 000 workers annually. Not surprisingly, the rates are different for individual countries and regions. The annual fatal occupational injury rate for established market economies has been estimated by the ILO as ~5/100 000 workers while the rate for the Asian region, where there has been a relatively rapid and unregulated pace of industrialization, is much higher, ~23/100 000 workers.
