184 employees had accidents at the workplace during the past year, of which 32 employees with fatal consequences lost their lives. According to official data from the State Labor Inspectorate, from the monitoring of the inspection process in 2022, it results that the sectors that occupy a higher percentage of the occurrence of accidents at work without fatal consequences are manufacturing enterprises with 27%, but it should be noted that minor accidents or incidents and road accidents have occurred in these subjects, which indicates an increase in the awareness of employers to declare any accident or incident to the Labor Inspectorate.
In the second place are other activities, where a high percentage of 14.1% of the total number of accidents is occupied by road accidents which occurred mainly in delivery services and on the way from home to work and vice versa.
Meanwhile, construction ranks third, but compared to previous years, there is a decrease in the number of accidents at work in this sector, despite the fact that the sector has had a high development during this year. And mining-quarries, accidents that happened in the gallery. The highest percentage of accidents resulting in death is occupied by road accidents, which account for 32% of accidents resulting in death in total.
Based on this analysis of fatal accidents, the Labor Inspectorate emphasizes that increased attention will be paid to the delivery services sector in relation to the performance and control of the risk assessment document for the "motorcyclist" profession, since its place of work is movement in the street.
While the largest percentage of accidents at work is occupied by the Tirana Regional Directorate, 48.7% of the total, as it has the largest geographic area and concentration of subjects in all of Albania.
Elisabeta Dosku/ SCAN