The Jordanian Labor Observatory called on the government to ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions related to occupational health and safety, specifically, the Occupational Safety and Health Agreement No. 155, the Occupational Health Services Agreement No. 161, and the Safety in the Use of Chemicals Convention No. 170, which will lead to raising the level of Jordanian standards, especially that the ILO singled out 16 agreements in this regard, and Jordan has ratified only three of them.
The Observatory pointed out in a paper issued in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation that there is a digital decline in the numbers of occupational accidents and injuries in the formal sector and organized workers, based on the statistics of the General Organization for Social Security for the year 2018, where its numbers decreased from 13049 accidents in 2017 to 9860 accidents in the year 2018.
The paper also indicated that the manufacturing sector is the most vulnerable in applying health and safety standards, as 33% of work injuries occur in it, followed by the wholesale and retail trade sector, the percentage was 16.81%, and the restaurant and hotel sector is 10.87%, and in the construction sector it has reached 7.8% .
It further reported that the number of deaths resulting from occupational injuries from social security subscribers reached in 147 in 2018, of which 10 were women, and 14 were migrant workers, and there were a number of undocumented cases not covered by the insurance.
The paper pointed out as well to a number of enterprises that do not report all workplace accidents, in order to avoid being subject to increased social and health safety deductions for the Social Security Corporation.
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