In 2016, the work accident branch of the Health Insurance recognized 10,000 mental illnesses as work accidents. Reported to some 626,000 work accidents with stoppagethis represents approximately 1.6% of these accidents compared to 1% in 2011.
These psychic disorders mainly concern women (in nearly 60% of cases) with an average age of 40.
The medico-social sector alone concentrates nearly 20% of work-related mental accidents, while it employs only 10% of employees. It is followed by the transport sector (and more particularly passenger transport) and the retail trade, which accounted for almost half of the ailments in 2016.
What are the trigger events?
According to Health Insurance, mental illnesses occur mainly in two cases:
• The triggering event is a particular exogenous event, but related to work. He
in the majority of cases it is shock or stress linked to violent situations
(assaults, threats, robberies, etc.). It can also be road accidents.
• The triggering factor are intrinsically difficult working conditions, resulting in characterized psychic pathologies (depression, anxiety, etc.).
For these psychic disorders recognized as accidents at work, the average duration of sick leave is 112 days compared to 65 days for the average for all accidents at work combined.
“The cost of taking care of them was more than 230 million euros. For the record, low back pain represent for the branch an annual cost of more than one billion euros, and musculoskeletal disorders 800 million” underlines the health insurance.
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