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At a glance guide to
Health and Safety Statistics in Great Britain
2012/13
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What data do we have about workplace health and safety in Great Britain?
Safety
Number of people and rates of injury at work for different groups of workers Number of dangerous occurence reports from employers
Ill health/disease
Estimates of the number of people with an illness which is caused or made worse by their work Rates of work-related ill health for different groups of workers (eg by industry and occupation) Estimated deaths due to work exposures
Enforcement
Number of companies prosecuted for breaches of health and safety legislation Number of enforcement notices served by health and safety inspectors
Other topics
Cost to Britain of health and safety failings Working days lost due to work-related ill health and injury European comparisons of health and safety indicators
Find out more about work-related ill health Go to the Statistics website
Overview
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Musculoskeletal
Stress
Other illness
Injury
Other illness
Injury
Cancer
Ill health accounts for 43% of the health and safety incidents, 84% of the related sickness absence and over 99% of the work-related deaths each year
*This data refers to 2011/12 no Labour Force Survey data for ill health is available for 2012/13.
Key facts
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Fatal injury
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Major injury reported by employers
Workplace injury
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Find out more about workplace injury statistics Find out more about controls: slips and trips falls from height manual handling
Workplace injury?
Highest rates in agriculture, construction and transport Higher rates for less experienced workers Higher rates for men than for women
Workplace injury
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which can be caused by previous work activity and where symptoms can appear many years after exposure
Long-latency conditions
Stress
Work-related d
Work-related
Musculoskeletal
disorders
Asbestos
-related disease Work-related
Cancers
Skin
disease
Workrelated
Asthma
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Find out more about Stress statistics Find out more about Stress controls
H igher Higher r ates f or rates for women than than women me n men
Hig Highest ghest r rates ates s in n the the largest larges st workplaces workplaces (>250 (>250 employees) emplo oyees)
Work-related
Stress?
Hig Highest ghest r rates ates s in in public publi ic administration, administ tration, health health and and social socia al care and and education educa ation
Hig Highest ghest r rates ates s in m managerial anageria al and and p rofessio onal professional o occupations ccupatio ons
Work-related STRESS
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Find out more about MSD statistics Find out more about MSD controls
Work-related disorders?
Approximately 40% of disorders affect the back, and 40% affect the upper limbs
Musculoskeletal
7.5 million working days lost
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Find out more about cancer statistics Find out more about cancer controls
Three times more men than women die from occupational cancer
Occupational
Cancer
The leading cause of death is occupational exposure to asbestos
Other causes of occupational cancer are shift work, solar radiation, mineral oils and silica
The most common forms of cancer leading to death are lung cancer and mesothelioma
Work-related CANCER
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Find out more about asbestos-related disease statistics Find out more about asbestos-related disease controls
Asbestos-related
disease?
Current deaths are a result of past exposures, particularly in buildingrelated jobs Diseases take many years to develop following exposure to asbestos
Annual mesothelioma deaths are expected to peak towards the end of this decade
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Find out more about respiratory disease statistics Find out more about respiratory disease controls
Includes asthma, COPD, pneumoconiosis and silicosis - diseases that can be fatal
Work-related disease?
About 4000 COPD deaths each year due to past exposure to gases, dusts and fumes at work
Respiratory
Disease like COPD can take many years to develop after workplace exposures
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Find out more about skin disease statistics Find out more about skin disease controls
Working with wet hands and soaps/cleaners are the most common cause of dermatitis
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Find out more about NIHL statistics Find out more about control of noise risks
About 200 new claims are awarded Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit every year
Highest rates of NIHL occur in energy and extraction, construction and manufacturing industries About 20 000 cases estimated annually
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Find out more about HAVs statistics Find out more about control of vibration risks
Around 1200 new claims for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit each year
New cases of both vibration white finger and carpal tunnel syndrome have been declining over the past decade
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Borne by individuals (around 60% of total) employers and Government (around 20% each)
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Costs
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Where to go next
See the latest annual statistics report See our suite of statistics tables Try our HandS-On tool to view and manipulate your own tables Go to the A to Z topic index Go to the statistics homepage Find out more about our data sources and National Statistics policies
HSE Chief Statistician: Kate Sweeney Contact: kate.sweeney@hse.gsi.gov.uk Last updated: October 2013 Next update: October 2014
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