SWAN is a not-for-profit organization, established to provide workplace safety awareness training to the young workers in Canada and to create awareness of work place hazards and provide training to workers in underdeveloped countries particularly south Asian Region.
Our Slogan is “Prevention is better than Cure.”
The medical facilities are essential to treat the sick people but it would be more beneficial and economical to protect the people from sickness. Our target population is the worker, because directly or indirectly everyone is a worker and is exposed to workplaces hazards.
SWAN has the goal to engage volunteers from the same working environments for improving workplace safety and mitigating the workplace hazards.
Facts and Statistics
Every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease.
Every 15 seconds, 153 workers have a work-related accident.
Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases – more than 2.3 million deaths per year. 317 million accidents occur on the job annually; many of these resulting in extended absences from work.
The human cost of this daily adversity is vast and the economic burden of poor occupational safety and health practices is estimated at 4 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product each year.
We have to contribute to our utmost to minimize the losses.
Make the world a safer place by contributing today.
