HAVANA, January 24 (Aleida Godínez Soler, Lux InfoPress) –
Workplace accidents and the risk factors that make them possible continued at an
alarming rate at the end of 2000, according to a government report released at
the end of the year.
The central employment office for the tourism industry released the names of
eight workers who died during the year in tourism affiliated companies. The
dead, seven men and a woman, aged between 25 and 45, all suffered accidents at
work, attributable to causes ranging from driving at high rates of speed to poor
signage in workplaces to administrative action not in accord with resolution 23
of 1997 of the Ministry of Labor, which provides for the evaluation and
resolution of factors that could lead to injury or death.
The document reported 477 workers injured in the industry, with an attendant
loss of 13,331 work days.
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