Construction industry among the most unsafe industries in terms of accidents
Internationally, there is an increasing number of initiatives to improve the safety of the working environment. In the European Union in 2017, there were 3,552 fatal accidents at the workplace and 3.3 million non-fatal accidents. Of these, construction, transportation and storage, manufacturing and agriculture, forestry and fisheries accounted for two-thirds of all fatal accidents (65.2%) and more than two-fifths (43.6%) of all non-fatal accidents. The construction industry stands out as the negative leader with 20.6% of all fatal workplace accidents.