What type of Health and Safety Problems are we facing these days?

International Labor Organization(ILO) reported that 2.2 million are killed, over 160 million become sick and over 1.2 million injured each year, due to poor workplace safety. In addition, Hazardous substances kill 340,000 workers annually, while asbestos alone claims about 100,000 lives.
- In America, around 40% of American employees today feel overworked, excessively pressured, and squeezed to the point of anxiety, depression, and disease.
- In China, a 2006 phone study on "Employees' Fatigue in China-based Foreign Corporations" involving 1521 respondents indicated 91.1% of such office employees expressed symptoms of fatigue, of which 15.4% turned into illnesses eventually, 5% suffered from serious health decline, and some even died as a consequence.
- In Hongkong, health reports from 2004 to 2006 showed excessive workload and long work hours had led to a rising phenomenon of chronic fatigue, increased work injuries and a much higher suicide rate. Hong Kong's 2005 suicide rate was 18.6 per 100,000 local population (a good rise from 15 per 100,000 people in 2002), significantly above the world average of 14.5,and officials say the rate is increasing dramatically among working-age professionals as well as unskilled workers. Among professionals the suicide rate per 100,000 people increased from 2.28 between 1990 and 1994 to 7.3 from 1999 to 2003, according to official figures - more than a threefold increase.