7 hours agoThe Life and Health of Workers in the Hands of Fate
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)At this start week two people lost their lives at their place of work in Gjakova, while another in Istog. The Central Labour Inspectorate said that in the first six months it conducted 4751 inspections, it has declared 788 fines, meanwhile, there have been 268 accidents, of them with fatality. “From January to Today [...]
“From January to today, there have been seven fatal accidents and this is the official figure from the Central Labour Inspectorate, all other figures published by other unauthorized and uncompetent persons are not accurate and create uncertainty and disinform public opinion”
Other data has published the Private Sector Workers Union. According to this union, Monday's three victims increased the number of deaths at work 18 for the first 7 months of this year. Union Chairman Yusuf Azemi says 2025 is a bad year for the safety and health of workers in Kosovo.
“... these workers do not have an adequate reform protection mechanism on security and health at work. With this opinion, it is known that the owner of the company as the first person assigned to maintain safety and health at work is not carrying out his mission at all. The safety and health of the workers remain in the hands of God. So far according to statistics 2025 is a bad year because until last year we've had 12 cases of death, this year is still seven months away we have 18 job deaths...”, Azemi said.
According to Naim Bajraktar, security and health expert at work, the cause of injuries and deaths of workers in their workplace is not taking adequate measures especially in the workplace.
The most frequent violation in the workplace is not taking basic measures. Ensure basic protective equipment, tested labor tools, then training workers, handling how to protect and maintain health. Lately, there's been a decline from the height, that's what's happening from at least a little bit, but not to test the scaffolding...”, Bajraktari told Rtv21, broadcast Periscope
Two people have been detained for 48 hours after the tragic event in which two people died yesterday in a Gjakova workplace announced the Constitutional Prosecutor in Gjakova. The Central Labour Inspectorate has announced that the subject where the accident occurred has been previously fined by the Labour Inspectorate for repeated violations in this area. /Periscope
