Great Britain: more work-related suicides

According to Hazards Magazine, an occupational health and safety review, 250 kill each other because of work every year. This announcement comes as the House of Lords recognized the employer's liability when an employee committed suicide after an industrial accident. (Ref. 080193)
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According to the information published in Hazards Magazine, there are about 5,000 suicides every year in the UK in people of working age. Following the Japanese pattern – where 5% of all suicides are company related – there would be 250 work-related suicides a year in Great Britain – a figure that tops deadly industrial accidents.

This situation might worsen. Indeed, statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in November 2007 showed an increase in work-related stress, depressi

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