Ippp Concept for Health and Safety of Women in Urban Construction(Building) Sector (2).Pptx
Introducing health and safety measures targeted to construction ( building) sector workers of Bangladesh with specific focus on health and hygiene issues of women.
MDHAP’s iPPP Department
Proposed by-
Date Created: August 2010
10.01.2013
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Vulnerability of Construction Workers of Bangladesh to Occupational Hazards
•Each year 11,700 workers die in Bangladesh in work-related accidents, another 28,600 die from industrial diseases and 8.9 million suffer work-related injuries.
(Source: Bangladesh Decent Work Country Program:ILO 2005)
Industrial and Service Sectors of Bangladesh : Bangladesh Worker Safety Programme survey 2007)
• About 50 per cent of the total workplace deaths in the country take place in the construction sector ( Source: Workplace Deaths in the
10.01.2013
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In 2008: - a total of 284 separate incidents resulted in 320 deaths - almost one fifth of the reported deaths (70) took place in Dhaka district – though there were sizeable numbers reported in Chittagong (44), Jessore (20) and Narayangang (15) Gazipur (13), and Commilla (11) - only 20 of the 320 workers who died were woman – 6%. - the construction sector had the highest number of deaths (120) – which was 38% of the total. sector. -the most common causes of deaths was ‘electrocution’ (122) and ‘falls from heights’ (51).
2007 Sector Nos % Nos
2008 % of total
Construction Manufacturing Service Agriculture Total
103 68 51 N/a 222
46% 31% 23% N/a
120 94 91 15 320
38% 30% 29% 5%
District Dhaka Chittagong Jessore Narayanganj Gazipur
2007 38% 15% 1% 8% 5%
2008 20% 13% 6% 3% 4%
(Source: Report published on 17 May 2009 by the Centre for Corporate Accountability’s jointly undertaken by Bangladesh Worker Safety Programme (BWSP) Bangladesh Occupational Safety Health and Environmental Programme (OSHE) and Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies (BILS). )
10.01.2013
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Factors Contributing to Occupational Death, Injuries and
MDHAP’s iPPP Department
Proposed by-
Date Created: August 2010
10.01.2013
Seite 1
Vulnerability of Construction Workers of Bangladesh to Occupational Hazards
•Each year 11,700 workers die in Bangladesh in work-related accidents, another 28,600 die from industrial diseases and 8.9 million suffer work-related injuries.
(Source: Bangladesh Decent Work Country Program:ILO 2005)
Industrial and Service Sectors of Bangladesh : Bangladesh Worker Safety Programme survey 2007)
• About 50 per cent of the total workplace deaths in the country take place in the construction sector ( Source: Workplace Deaths in the
10.01.2013
Seite 2
In 2008: - a total of 284 separate incidents resulted in 320 deaths - almost one fifth of the reported deaths (70) took place in Dhaka district – though there were sizeable numbers reported in Chittagong (44), Jessore (20) and Narayangang (15) Gazipur (13), and Commilla (11) - only 20 of the 320 workers who died were woman – 6%. - the construction sector had the highest number of deaths (120) – which was 38% of the total. sector. -the most common causes of deaths was ‘electrocution’ (122) and ‘falls from heights’ (51).
2007 Sector Nos % Nos
2008 % of total
Construction Manufacturing Service Agriculture Total
103 68 51 N/a 222
46% 31% 23% N/a
120 94 91 15 320
38% 30% 29% 5%
District Dhaka Chittagong Jessore Narayanganj Gazipur
2007 38% 15% 1% 8% 5%
2008 20% 13% 6% 3% 4%
(Source: Report published on 17 May 2009 by the Centre for Corporate Accountability’s jointly undertaken by Bangladesh Worker Safety Programme (BWSP) Bangladesh Occupational Safety Health and Environmental Programme (OSHE) and Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies (BILS). )
10.01.2013
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Factors Contributing to Occupational Death, Injuries and