Occupational Accidents

The government, through the human resources ministry, targets to reduce workplace-related accidents to three in 1,000 workers by 2015, as compared to 3.31 in every 1,000 workers last year. The number of occupational accidents, whether commuting accidents or accidents at the workplace, as reported by Socso last year, stood at 61,552 cases as compared to 59,897 cases in 2011.

Of this figure, commuting accidents increased from 41.42 per cent in 2011 to 42.66 per cent last year, while accidents at the workplace showed a drop.