China: Since the enforcement of the Safety Production Law in 2003, workplace accidents have been reduced by 1.7% (2003), 11.2% (2006) and 14% in the first ten months of 2007 (corresponding to 79,000 fatal accidents). Over the same period, the death toll from road accidents fell from 13.7 per 10.000 vehicles to 6.2. Fatalities in coal mines fell from 4.94 per million tons of coal mined in 2002 to 2.04 in 2006.
Source BBC Monitoring Asio Pacific, 20 August 2007
Asian Casualty Report 10th Edition June 2008 – Gen Re
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Same progress in improving industrial safety
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