Takaful News - Saudi Arabia: Work-related injuries highest in construction
Source: Middle East Insurance Review | Mar 2016
About 85% of work-related injuries take place in the three major sectors of construction, trade and downstream industries, according to the statistics published by the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI).
During the third quarter of 2015, 13,846 workplace injuries were reported, of which 11,907 were in the three sectors — 7,179 injuries in the construction sector, 2,606 in trade and 2,122 in downstream industries, reported the Saudi Gazette citing GOSI.
The total number of work-related injuries reported in the third quarter of 2015 was low considering the large-scale construction work under way for massive development projects across the country, GOSI said.
The Kingdom registered more than 69,000 work injuries in nine economic sectors in 2014 with the construction sector accounting for 51% of the total.
Riyadh and Makkah reported the largest number of workplace injury cases in the construction sector. Makkah claimed the largest number of injuries in the trade sector with 900 cases.