Minister of Labour Joseph Hamilton on Monday said that workplace deaths decreased by 20 percent in 2022.
Hamilton revealed this during his presentation on budget 2023 at the 54th sitting of the National Assembly. According to Hamilton, in 2021, 32 persons lost their lives at the workplace. This number decreased last year with 21 persons dying at the workplace, said Hamilton.
“The specific matter of workplace deaths, for me, it is not statistics. Every time someone was killed at their workplace, that is a family of some person – a husband, a child, a friend of some person,” he said.