The working population affiliated with General Occupational Risk System at the end of December 2021 it increased by 836,491 and reached 11,400,825.
In accordance with phasecolda, there are currently 1,014,966 companies affiliated to the system.
During the pandemic, ARL made a commitment to deliver Personal Protection Elements (PPE) for health workers, from 7% of the contributions received by the Occupational Risk System. As of December 2021, the delivery of these EEP amounted to $417,000 million.
(See: Today condom batch had hole detection problems).
In 2021, occupational diseases reported and related to mental health reached 1,249, while the previous year there were a thousand, which indicates an increase of 9% compared to 2020, especially in women, who represented 62% of these claims.
However, it is striking that the pandemic period is not the one with the most cases of this type of disease in recent years. In 2018, with 1,641 cases, it exceeded those registered in the pandemic.
This classification includes depression, severe stress reaction, acute stress reaction, and generalized anxiety, post-traumatic stress, sleep disorders due to non-organic factors, adaptation, mixed anxious-depressive, panic, and psychotic disorders.
(See: The next threat that would put the world in check, according to Bill Gates).
Between 2017 and 2021, mixed anxiety-depressive disorder was the main illness diagnosed with psychosocial origin in Colombia.
Depression decreased 8% in 2021, while the disorder mixed anxious-depressive and adjustment disorders increased 7% and 3%, respectively.
In 2021, the sectors with the highest number of occupational illnesses with a psychosocial diagnosis were: public administration (28%), real estate (21%) and social and health services (11%).
(See: Covid vaccination will be integrated into the Expanded Program of Immunizations).
In the United States, for example, 83% of workers confirm that they feel emotionally exhausted from their work. Of this group, 99% say that work stress affects their mental health. Besides, 56% do not feel their employer provides a safe environment for employees with mental illness.
Between 2010 and 2021, more than 5.5 million Colombian workers have been disabled, that is, on average, 450,000 workers per year.
Bogotá Antioquia and Cali are the cities with the highest record of temporary disabilities. The distribution of cases by sector is led by social and health services (19%), followed by real estate (15%), manufacturing (15%), construction (10%) and agriculture, livestock and hunting (10 %).
(See: Could strict covid lockdowns return to Colombia?).
BRIEFCASE
