Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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Work safety in Latvia is seen as having improved the most. The Latvian men
in particular evaluated as very positive the development that had taken place.
Almost one in four Latvian men (24 %) felt that their occupational safety had
become better during the year preceding the survey.
ESTONIA
During the last 12 months safety at work Men Women All
has…
(%) (%) (%)
…considerably increased 2.3 1.9 2.1
…somewhat increased 15.4 9.1 12.1
…remained the same 72.0 79.8 76.1
…somewhat decreased 4.4 2.8 3.6
…considerably decreased 0.2 0.4 0.3
Do not know 5.6 5.9 5.8
Total
p = .046
100 % 100 % 100 %
Also in Estonia, more men than women evaluated occupational safety as having
developed positively, though the gender differences were not as great as in
Latvia. Both the men's and the women's experiences of improved work safety
were a little less prevalent in Estonia than in Latvia. Nevertheless, in Estonia
too, those experiencing the change as positive were several times as numerous
as the ones who saw it as negative. There, as also in the other Baltic countries,
the great majority of the working people did not think that safety at work had
changed during the year prior to the survey.
LITHUANIA
During the last 12 months safety at work Men Women All
has…
(%) (%) (%)
…considerably increased 1.3 1.3 1.3
…somewhat increased 11.3 8.3 9.8
…remained the same 78.5 81.9 80.2
…somewhat decreased 5.1 3.9 4.5
…considerably decreased 0.7 1.3 1.0
Do not know 3.1 3.3 3.2
Total
p = .536
100 % 100 % 100 %