"In France, the number of deaths at work due to accidents remains stuck at around 750 deaths each year."

Companies are in freewheeling mode when it comes to preventing serious and fatal accidents at work (SFAs). This observation, which will surely raise eyebrows among employers' organizations, is confirmed by the accident rate figures and the report, published in June, on the labor inspectorate's campaign dedicated to preventing accidents at work .

While the fight against ATGM is a priority of the ^4th occupational health plan (2021-2025) , the counter of deaths at work by accident remains stuck at around 750 deaths each year, according to figures from the Health Insurance, work accidents-occupational diseases branch (AT-MP).

More worryingly, young workers are paying a heavy price for this veritable epidemic , with 32 deaths of employees under 25. This is all the more unacceptable given that the risk factors behind this accident rate among young people are well documented, including poor reception conditions, a lack of safety training, and even being assigned to dangerous positions or with degraded working conditions.

The results of the labor inspection campaign dedicated to the prevention of work accidents confirm the analysis that companies are not making the expected efforts to reverse this deadly trend. In the 1,149 establishments inspected a posteriori by labor inspectors, the Ministry of Labor reveals that only half of the employers (50.6%) have implemented concrete prevention measures. "Employers too rarely draw conclusions from the work accidents that occur," which tends to "encourage their recurrence," we can read in the results of this prevention campaign carried out in 2024.

Three out of ten employers (29.6%) have not reassessed the risks that cause accidents at all. And a quarter of them (25.7%) have done so insufficiently. Only 38% of employers have updated their single occupational risk assessment document. This formal obligation is neglected even by those who have made the effort to analyze the causes of accidents.

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