Statistical Report

Subject:        UK Health and Safety Statistics 2007/08

Date of Email: Wed 29/10/2008

Report Detail:

presenting the latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great Britain issued.

Key annual figures 2007/08

Ill health
2.1 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
1.3 million of these cases were suffered by people working during the year, of which 563 000 were new cases.
2056 people died of mesothelioma (2006), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases

Injuries
229 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
136 771 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 517.9 per 100 000 employees.
299 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 1000 per 100 000 workers.

Working days lost
34 million days were lost overall (1.4 days per worker), 28 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.

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