A carnage! When work enslaves or is carried out in poor conditions, it damages our health and takes lives. Every year, 300 million people around the world are injured in the workplace and 2.3 million die.
“But these estimates do not fully reflect the scale of the problem, nor the real impact of work accidents and occupational diseases on workers and their families and on economic activity”, underlines this Friday the Organization International Labor Organization (ILO) on the occasion of the World Day for Health at Work.
The ILO therefore calls on countries to improve the referencing of these accidents or illnesses in order to better combat them.
In France, the Health Insurance (Cnam) has tackled the issue to help certain professions to reduce the sometimes deleterious effects of a professional activity. And the hairdressers are on the front line, note France Blue. For four years, the station recalls, the Cnam has put “10 million euros on the table to help hairdressing salons to equip themselves with ergonomic equipment.
With height-adjustable shampoo basins, for example, hairdressers no longer strain their backs. Likewise, hair dryers are lighter, reducing the permanent strain on arm muscles. Thanks to this Préciseo program, hairdressers can obtain aid of 5,000 euros, renewable twice.
According to a reported assessment by France Bleuin four years, 20% of musculoskeletal disorders have disappeared in equipped salons.
Small flat, this aid “is no longer granted for the current year, the entire allocated budget having been consumed”, indicates the Health Insurance on its site.
