Health and Safety in the Workplace in Luxembourg

AutorChristian Déprez
CargoCollaborateur de recherche. Université du Luxembourg
Páginas47-54
IUSLabor 2/2015
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HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE IN LUXEMBOURG
Christian Déprez
Collaborateur de recherche
Université du Luxembourg
Introduction
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Statistics regarding health and safety in the workplace are available as from 1960 in
Luxembourg, but the reform that took place with the law dated 12nd May 2010, which
enlarged first the scope of the workers taken into account in the statistics (including
special regimes which were not previously taken into account), and second, the notion
of accident in the workplace.
As a result, one shall compare in order to be accurate the available statistics during
two separated periods, the first one from 1960 to 2010 and the second one as from 2011
until now.
The current statistics are available online at the following link, and encompass the two
periods: http://www.aaa.lu/fileadmin/file/aaa/statistiques/2013/Internet-2013.pdf.
Broadly, the statistic reveals that the frequency of accidents in the workplace has
decreased from 27,44% in 1960 to 5,69% in 2013, mainly occurring in public spaces, in
industrial sites and construction sites. One shall note that the proportion of commuting
accidents compared to the accident occurring in the workplace has increased from
approximately 6% in 1960 to approximately 20% in 2013.
It can be reasonably inferred from the data, that the transition during this period from
an industrial economy to a service-oriented (banking, advisory etc.) economy, the
improvement of the legal and technical framework ensuring prevention and protection
of health and safety and finally the technology breakthrough can logically explain these
figures.
The increase in the commuting during the period, the usage of cars for longer distances,
especially for a huge number of cross-border workers, can also explain the increase of
the stake of commuting accidents.
12 Source: Statistics of the « Association d’assurance Accident » Luxembourg. Public institution under
the authority of the Ministry of the social security, in charge of the prevention and the compensation of
professional accident or disease.

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