Occupational accidents in Peru: Analysis of the reality from statistical data

Abstract

The general objective of this article is to describe the problem of occupational accidents from the analysis of statistical data in Peru. This is a study supported by the positivist and interpretive paradigm of a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative). The research is descriptive, documentary information has been traced to address the problem of workplace accidents, in a universal context. The term work accident is theorized, creating a construct of it and differentiating it from other terms; for the analysis, the universe constituted by the labor accidents occurred in the organizations is considered; the population oriented to Peru and the sample in the various cases presented: The results indicate that the year 2018-2019, although the variation in notifications of fatal work accidents was-4.6%, specifically in the months of December; Analyzing the trend of the data, we have that the correlation coefficient (R) was 0.851, which implies a high positive correlation between time and the number of reported accidents; being that as time passes, these will increase.