(in German)

The report Safety and Health at Work - Reporting Year 2024 (Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit – Berichtsjahr 2024) deals substantively with a range of topics relating to working life. It draws not just on the figures for the reporting year itself, but also on multi-year time series to look at medium and long-term developments. Thematically, the report offers a data-based overview of employment generally, work and commuting accidents, occupational diseases, incapacity for work, reduced earning capacity pensions, and many other topics. In addition, it includes accounts of various occupational safety and health (OSH) actors' activities (section 1.4), as well as discussions of working conditions (sections 1.8.1 and 1.8.2) and the good design of hybrid screen work (section 1.9). The report has a special focus on mental health in the world of work (section 2), exploring the outcomes from a series of workshop sessions about mental health (section 2.1), trends in work intensity (section 2.2), and bullying issues (section 2.3).

Notifiable occupational accidents reached a historically low level in 2024 (810,399), something also reflected in the lowest every accident rate per 1,000 full-time-equivalent employees (18.0). There were 175,560 notifiable commuting accidents, so fewer than the preceding year. More illuminating comparisons can be drawn by looking at the accident rate per 1,000 weighted insurance relationships, which was 2.97, meaning notifiable commuting accidents had fallen to their second-lowest level since 2020, a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, when the rate was 2.90. At 440, the number of fatal occupational accidents was also noticeably lower than the previous year (499). The indicators for occupational diseases continued to reflect the fading influence of the pandemic. For instance, the number of suspected occupational diseases reported was 104,468, 31% below the figure for the previous year and markedly above that for 2019 (84,853). 29,306 recognised cases of occupational diseases were recorded, pointing to an even clearer year-on-year decline (2023: 74,930; 2019: 20,422). The number of people who died of occupational diseases was 1,900, which was also fewer than in 2023 (2,151). A large proportion of these deaths were still attributable to conditions associated with exposure to asbestos (65%).

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Please download the complete report (in German) "Safety and Health at Work - Reporting Year 2024"