In the organizations of five districts of Minsk decreased the number of severe occupational injuries
In January-August 2026 in comparison with the same period of 2025 in the organizations of Minsk by 20%.
In January-August 2026, in comparison with the same period of 2025, the number of workers seriously injured at work decreased by 20% in Minsk organizations. This was reported to the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency in the Department of Labor Protection of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
- According to the Department of State Labor Inspectorate of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, for eight months of this year, 74 workers were seriously injured in the organizations of the capital (in January-August 2025 - 92). Compared to the same period last year, fewer accidents with a severe outcome were recorded in organizations of Pervomaisky, Zavodsk, Central, Partizansky and Leninsky districts, said Natalia Nesterovich, head of the labor protection department of the Committee on Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Minsk City Executive Committee.
According to her, in January-August 2026, the number of workers who were intoxicated and injured decreased by 6 times (from 6 for the same period of 2025 to 1 person).
Analysis of the materials of completed investigations of accidents at work this year shows that most often they occurred due to personal negligence of victims (32.1%). The main causes of injuries also include violations of labor discipline by employees, the requirements of regulatory legal acts that are mandatory for compliance with technical regulatory and local legal acts on labor protection (22.5%) or as a result of not fully ensured control over the performance of work, compliance with labor and executive discipline by managers and specialists of organizations (10.2%), N. Nesterovich said.
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The coefficient of the total level of occupational injuries (frequency coefficient per 100 thousand insured) in Minsk in 2026 amounted to 19.0 (in 2025 - 22.8) and is the lowest among the regions of the country (average in the republic - 36.8).
