HASDuring the 2023 financial year, 200.6 million hours of temporary work were recorded, announces the non-profit association Prevention and Interim (PI), created at the request of social partners. That is the equivalent of 102,856 full-time workers. This represents a decrease in the volume of activity of 9% compared to 2022, shared between manual (60%) and intellectual (40%) functions. The past year was also marked by a record in the temporary employment sector. The number of work accidents over the twelve months was the lowest recorded: 7,159 work accidents involving temporary workers and resulting in incapacity for work for at least one day, compared to 8,327 the previous year.
This represented a total of 143,180 days of incapacity for work, compared to 192,624 in 2022. In 92% of cases, these were manual workers. “Work accidents leading to permanent incapacity for work are fewer,” notes Prévention et Intérim. “The circumstantial reports analyzed by PI after a serious accident show that accidents are often the result of poor “reception” of temporary workers. Reception is a compulsory legal procedure which allows any new worker (permanent or temporary) in Belgium to receive the information necessary to work safely at their workplace and avoid health problems. » It is therefore important that the information provided to the worker is in a language that he understands.
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Furthermore, the year 2023 marked a first financial year during which the number of hours worked by students increased from 475 to 600 per year. Despite this, with 38.6 million hours worked by job seekers, student work via temp agencies fell by 3.3% in one year. They have nevertheless increased their importance within all temporary work, of which they now represent 19.25%. Nearly one in five temporary workers was therefore a job worker in 2023. With 556 work accidents recorded within this population, the frequency rate (the number of accidents per million hours worked) increased from 17.73 % to 14.40% in one year.
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