The Deputy Minister of Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Isabel León, held a working meeting last Friday with the economic and social agents of Lanzarote, in which the latest data on occupational accidents on the island were analyzed and information was provided on the actions carried out by the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate during the current year.
Among the data presented, the decrease of fifty-two cases in female workplace accidents in Lanzarote stands out during the period between January and July 2025. This reduction is mainly concentrated in minor accidents, the category that groups the highest number of incidents.
Also attending the meeting were the General Director of Labor, José Ramón Rodríguez; the Regional Director of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate in the Canary Islands, Francisco Guindín; the Head of the Provincial Labor and Social Security Inspectorate in Las Palmas, Andrés Fernández; and the Director of the Canarian Institute for Occupational Safety (ICASEL), Elirerto Galván. Representatives from the Canary Islands Confederation of Entrepreneurs (CCE), the Lanzarote Business Confederation, and the trade union organizations CCOO and UGT also participated.
During the meeting, the evolution of workplace accidents in Lanzarote was addressed, both for the entirety of 2024 and for the first seven months of 2025, and the main actions carried out by the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate and by ICASEL on the island were discussed.
Regarding male accidents, a slight increase was observed in minor accidents, with thirty-eight more cases than in the same period of the previous year, while serious accidents registered a decrease. As the Deputy Minister of Employment detailed, "the main cause of the increase in minor accidents is related to overexertion in the workplace, which represents 22.7% of the total accidents according to the report prepared by ICASEL."
Across the archipelago, there were 14,113 workplace accidents between January and July 2025, of which 1,344 occurred in Lanzarote. Of these, five were classified as serious, two due to non-traumatic pathologies, one due to a fall from a height, and two due to falls on the same level, and one was fatal.
Throughout 2024, the total number of workplace accidents in Lanzarote amounted to 2,402, of which ten were serious and one was fatal. By municipality, Arrecife recorded the highest number of incidents (724), followed by Yaiza (549), Tías (468), Teguise (327), San Bartolomé (253), Tinajo (60), and Haría (21).
Regarding the data on labor violations detected on the island, the areas with the highest volume of violations were: working hours (136); work permits for employed persons (90); employment contracts, including fixed-term seasonal contracts (81); and affiliations and registrations of workers (72). The areas with the fewest number of violations detected were those relating to workplaces (4), machinery and work equipment (5), and unemployment benefits (10).
The Deputy Minister of Employment reiterated the regional Executive's commitment to improving working conditions and protecting the rights of workers. In this regard, she recalled that the headquarters of the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate in Arrecife has a team made up of four female inspectors and five deputy labor inspectors.
