New figures were issued today by the Health and Safety Executive that there were 148 fatalities at work in 2012/13, a welcome fall since 233 died in 2007/08, and the figures have continually fallen.
After interrogating the list of names and removing the members of the public (who shouldn't be in the list - obviously the beancounters at the HSE cannot sort their tables out) you are left with a list of 128, and only two (Zydre and Linda) are women. That's right folks, of the 128 people listed who died at work in 2012/13, 126 of the 128 were men.
There a number of wide ranging issues exposing the sexism and bias that men face daily in Britain.
As discussed before, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of victims were men, the Health and Safety Executive chose not to highlight that in their statistics or press release. They do not even acknowledge it anywhere at all. If the figures were the other way round, they would. So why do they choose do that? Is it because they don't think men matter? Where is their equality impact assessment?Where is their diversity manager talking about it in the media? They chose not to so a clear case of discrimination by omission and institutional sexism.
Secondly, again there is silence from the political elite on the matter. Not just on the subject itself but also the number of men dying. Nothing from the Equalities Commission and nothing from the laughably named government equalities department.
Thirdly, and mentioned earlier this week, this is why there is a gender gap because of the danger premium associated with some of the work that men undertake. Labour, TUC, Fawcett etc want equal pay but where are their campaigns encouraging women to undertake this type of work?
Plus where are the prosecutions, the campaigns aimed at employers?
It shows that men who die at work are not of interest to those claim to believe in equality because they do not fit the 'only women matter' world of equality and diversity we live in - while men are dying at work. Collateral damage and the second sex.
Posted by Skimmington
Yeah isn't funny how those commy unions are happy to take the money of their Useful idiot men, why not they are expendable.
Like i keep saying down tools, both of them,don't play the game.
Posted by: brian | Thursday, 04 July 2013 at 22:41
I think it might be an idea to aggregate all newspaper articles and gov docs that blatantly commit sexism by omission. I have noticed this little trick more and more in local government statistics and media. Also have you noticed how many papers don't allow comments on stories that they know will get backlash from MRA?
Posted by: trevor | Friday, 05 July 2013 at 08:51
The HSE very rarely reports on gender. However the deaths are the tip of an iceberg. In 2011/12 58,000 men were injured (14,500 seriously) with men over twice as likely to be injured at work.
In looking at the stats for diagnoses of work related illness there are some even more stark figures for instance in 2011 1870 men were diagnosed with work related respiratory diseases including cancers and just 95 women. This was a surprise as I had thought the virtual end of mining and heavy industry in the 80s would have made more diffence to the pattern in recent years.
For those MRAs with maths skills the relevant stats are in RIDDOR and THOR reports on the HSE stats index. As usual with the HSE getting to gender differentiated data is rather hard work. Very suspicious for a public Body
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm
Posted by: Groan | Friday, 05 July 2013 at 09:31
There are some powerful interests that want to continue breaking and dividing American and British men and their families.
But not all men and their families are being "broken" equally.
Posted by: Elvis | Friday, 05 July 2013 at 15:46