Informal sector OSH gap worries Nssa

THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) says unreported occupational safety and health (OSH) incidents in the informal sector need to be brought to focus.
This comes as the government’s long-standing push to regularise the sector, which provides the bulk of economic activity in the country, has so far failed to produce results.
“Over the past few years, we have been recording fatalities in the workplace. The highest figure we have recorded over the past 10 years was about 114 people who died in the workplace.
“But these are statistics that we record as Nssa. These are reported cases. We have so many other cases that go unreported, especially in the informal sector,” Nssa acting director for occupational health and safety, Betty Nyereyegona told The Financial Gazette on the sidelines of the 60th national conference on safety at work in Victoria Falls last week.