Taipei Times
Date: Jun 10, 2020
By: Yang Mien-chieh and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) plans to invest NT$500 million (US$16.78 million) over the next four years to improve the working conditions of sanitation employees, citing a high number of work-related accidents.

Their work conditions are complicated, which increases the risk of accidents, it said on Sunday.

It used to report accidents involving sanitation workers based on the number of accidents per county and municipality, but the reporting standards differed nationwide, it said.

An analysis of nationwide accident statistics over the past five years showed that sanitation workers had nearly as many accidents as all other occupations combined, the agency said.
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