IDF forces activity at the home of the terrorist who carried out the attack in Gan Yavneh, April 1, 2024/IDF spokesperson
At the occupational health conference of the Institute for Safety and Security at the Ministry of Labor in the shadow of the war, held today (Tuesday) at the Management College in Rishon Lezion, it was revealed that the war period caused a significant increase in the percentage of people suffering from sleep difficulties from 18.7% last summer to 37.7%, an increase of 101%. There was also an increase of about 78% in the percentage reporting high stress, which reached 43.5% during the war, and an increase of about 55% in the percentage reporting burnout at a very high level, which reached about 40% of the employees.
The study followed 2,035 respondents who answered in the summer before the war and 1,807 of whom answered again two months after the outbreak of the war. According to the researchers, this situation increases the risk that the workers will get sick or be injured in their work, and indeed as the workers reported higher burnout, a higher percentage of them reported being involved in accidents in the first two months of the war.
Another study presented at the conference presented the new dangers that have developed in workplaces since the war and how employers are coping. The managers reported an increase in the amount of employee absences, a lack of shelters and emergency shelters, an increase in the feeling of stress during work and improper escape routes. 277 safety inspectors from all over the country participated in the study, most of them were employees and worked in large organizations. The data was collected from October 30 to December 15, 2023.
From additional data revealed at the conference - since October 7, the Rehabilitation Division has recognized more than 2,000 soldiers, policemen and members of the security forces as disabled in the IDF, at a rate of about 60 new disabled people per day. 60% injured limbs (including amputations), about 10% with injuries to internal organs and about 10% who suffer mental injuries.
Israel Ozan, Director General of the Ministry of Labor/Courtesy of those photographed
Dr. Mickey Winkler, CEO of the Institute for Safety and Security/Courtesy of the photographed
"The findings of the study are alarming," said
Dr. Mickey Winkler
, CEO of the Mossad for Safety and Security. "The workers will demand to continue their war in the workplace as well and will suffer from sleep disturbances, great stress and burnout that will increase. All of these will endanger them in their workplace as well. The experts of the Mossad for Safety and Proofreading will help every employer to absorb the workers back in the best and safest way."
The Director General of the Ministry of Labor,
Israel Ozan
added: "These days, the Ministry is placing maximum emphasis on the issue of reservists returning to the labor market. The minister took the matter as a personal project in which we accompany the reservists' return to the world of employment, protect their rights and provide them with protection against dismissal, while emphasizing the issue of occupational health and safety for workers who returned from the battlefield with fractures, traumas and health challenges."