Occupational Health and Safety in the Caribbean Key Issues and Trends Eric Kipps Managing Director Jaric Group of Companies 1 2 3 ILO Safety and Health Statistics •6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases every day 2.3 million •More than deaths per year •317 million accidents occur on the job annually; many of these resulting in extended absences from work 4 ILO Safety and Health Statistics 15 seconds Every , a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease. 5 Quote Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General said “Safety and health at work is not only a sound economic policy - it is a basic human right”. 6 Credit Union History • 1844 Rochdale, England where workers and weavers create a democratic consumer cooperative • 1849 Germany Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, a lawyer, established a credit society to help shopkeepers and urban workers • 1901, Quebec, Canada became the first North American credit union established • 1909 Manchester, New Hampshire the first U.S. credit union was established 7 Credit Unions in the Caribbean • Caribbean people were introduced to the cooperative movement sometime towards the end of the 19th century • The first attempts to organize cooperative ventures were in Guyana. • The Peoples Cooperative Bank started in Jamaica in 1905 was the first recorded Caribbean financial cooperative. 8 9 How many of our brothers and sisters have died from a work related accident or disease? 10