Health and safety statistics for 2007/08 published
The Health and Safety Executive has released their statistics for work related incidents in the year 2007/08 - 2nd November 2008
The Health and Safety
Executive have released their statistics for the
year 2007/08, some of the key points are covered
below.
It reports that 229 workers died as a result of
accidents at
work, that’s around 0.0008% of the workforce.
The
UK Statistics Authority's Labour Force Survey
shows that 299,000 reportable
injuries at work occurred, though under
RIDDOR only 136,771 have reported suffering an
injury at
work.
Around 34 million working days were lost, 28 million
days because of ill health that is work related, and
the remaining 6 million days as a result of
suffering workplace
injuries.
There were 563,000 new cases of work related illness
in the year, with 1.3 million people overall who had
worked in the year suffering in total. There are 2.1
million people in all who claim to be suffering from
ill health are a result of work they have done.
The report can be viewed by visiting
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overall/hssh0708.pdf.
