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At a glanceguide toHealth and Safety Statisticsin Great Britain
2012/13
Health and Safety
Executive
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OVERVIEW WORKPLACE INJURY WORK-RELATED ILL HEALTH COSTS RESOURCES
At a glance guide toHealth and SafetyStatistics
What data do we have about workplace health and safetyin Great Britain?
Overview
Ill health/disease
Estimates of the numberof people with an illnesswhich is caused or made
worse by their workRates of work-related ill
health for different groupsof workers (eg by industry
and occupation)
Estimated deaths due towork exposures
Find out moreabout work-related ill health
Go to the Statisticswebsite
Find out moreabout injuries
Go to the Statisticswebsite
Go to the
Enforcement statistics
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Statistics website topic list
Safety
Number of people andrates of injury at workfor different groups of
workersNumber of dangerous
occurence reports fromemployers
Other topics
Cost to Britain of health
and safety failings
Working days lost due towork-related ill health and
injury
European comparisonsof health and safety
indicators
Enforcement
Number of companiesprosecuted for breaches
of health and safety
legislationNumber of enforcementnotices served by health
and safety inspectors
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Key facts2
OVERVIEW WORKPLACE INJURY WORK-RELATED ILL HEALTH COSTS RESOURCES
At a glance guide toHealth and SafetyStatistics
Health and safety compared
Musculoskeletal Stress Other illness Injury
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
Other illness Injury Cancer
Self-reported health and safety
incidents (1.0 million cases)*
Working days lost due to health and
safety incidents (27.0 million days)*
Work-related deaths by cause
(over 12 000 deaths)
Ill health accounts for 43% of the health and safety incidents, 84% of the related sicknessabsence and over 99% of the work-related deaths each year
Note: Includes long standing ill health cases
*This data refers to 2011/12 no Labour Force Survey data for ill health is available for 2012/13.
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Workplace injury3
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Injury severity triangle2012/13(not drawn to scale)
Fatal injury
148Major injury reported by employers
21 000All injuries to workers reported by employers*
80 000Self-reported injury leading to over-7-day absence
175 000Self-reported injury leading to over-3-day absence
231 000Self-reported injury at work
646 000 * From April 2012 RIDDOR reporting requirements moved toover-7-day absences from work
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Workplace injury4
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Highest rates
in manual
occupations
Most frequent causes
of injury are manual
handling, slips and trips
and falls from height
Highest rates in
agriculture,construction and
transport
Strong
declining
trend
Higher rates
for menthan for
women
Estimated 175 000
over-7-day injuries,
80 000 non-fatal injuries
reported by employers
Higher rates
for less
experienced
workers
Workplaceinjury?
Find out more aboutworkplace injury statistics
Find out more about controls:slips and trips
falls from height
manual handling
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Work-related ill health TYPES
Types of work-related ill health
Work-related
Asthma
Cancers
Work-related
Stress Work-relatedMusculoskeletaldisorders
Other
Respiratorydisease, eg COPD
Work-related
Skindisease
Work-related
Hearingloss
Vibration-related disease
or -re a e
or -a e
sor ers
sease, eg
isease oss
a e sease
or -re ate
Asbestos-related disease
Common healthconditionswhich can be caused or made worse by work
Long-latencyconditionswhich can be caused by previous work activity and
where symptoms can appear many years after exposure
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Work-related STRESS
Find out more aboutStress statistics
Find out more aboutStress controls
Highest rates
in the largest
workplaces
(>250 employees)
Hig trate
in r e t
r a
ce
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10.4 million
working
days lost
10.4 ili n
r i
st
Highest rates
in managerial andprofessional
occupations
Hig strate
s
in m
n ri l d
i na
ti s
Higher
rates for
women than
men
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f
nt a
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n
2011/12 statistics
new cases: 221 000
Pre-existing cases
207 000
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Highest rates
in public administration,
health and social care
and education
Hig trate
ubli i
nis ration,
ci lcare
c i n
Work-related
Stress?
Higher
rates for middle agedworkers
(ages 35 to 54)
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OVERVIEW WORKPLACE INJURY WORK-RELATED ILL HEALTH COSTS RESOURCES
Work-related MUSCULOSKELETAL disorders
Find out more aboutMSD statistics
Find out more aboutMSD controls
Highest rates in
agriculture, construction
and postal and
courier activities
Highest rates
in manual
and skilled
occupations
Highest rates
for workersaged over
45
Significant
reduction in cases
over last
10 years
7.5 million
workingdays lost
2011/12 statistics
New cases: 141 000
Pre-existing cases:
297 000
Approximately
40% of disorders affect
the back, and 40% affect
the upper limbs
Work-relatedMusculoskeletaldisorders?
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Work-related CANCER
Find out more aboutcancer statistics
Find out more aboutcancer controls
Primary source of data for occupational
cancerCancer Burden Study
Most new cases are
lung cancer,
breast cancer or
skin cancer
Over 5000 cases
estimated each year
from the construction
industry
Other causes of
occupational cancer are shiftwork, solar radiation, mineral
oils and silica
Three times
more men than women die
from occupational
cancer
The most common
forms of cancer leading todeath are lung cancer and
mesothelioma
8000 deaths and
13 500 new cases
estimated
per year
The leading
cause of death is
occupational exposure
to asbestos
Occupational
Cancer
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Work-related ASBESTOS disease
Find out more aboutasbestos-related disease
statistics
Find out more aboutasbestos-related disease
controls
About as many lung
cancer deaths from asbestos
exposure as mesotheliomas
each year
2291 mesothelioma
deaths in 2011:
1931 in men,
360 in women
Annual
mesothelioma deaths areexpected to peak towards
the end of this decade
Over
400 deaths from
asbestosis in
2011
Diseases take many
years to developfollowing exposure
to asbestos
At least 4500
deaths in total per
year currently, and
still increasing
Current deaths are
a result of past exposures,
particularly in building-
related jobs
Asbestos-relateddisease?
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Work-related RESPIRATORY disease
Find out more aboutrespiratory disease
statisticsFind out more aboutrespiratory disease
controls
179 occupational
asthma cases seen by
consultants and occupational
physicians in 2012
About 35 000 workers
report they currently have
breathing/lung problems
caused or made worse by
work
A reduction in
new cases of occupationalasthma over the last
10 years
Includes asthma,
COPD, pneumoconiosis
and silicosis - diseases
that can be fatal
Disease like COPD
can take many years todevelop after workplace
exposures
About
8500 new cases
per year according
to GPs
About 4000 COPD
deaths each year due to
past exposure to gases,
dusts and fumes at work
Work-relatedRespiratorydisease?
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Work-related SKIN disease
A reduction in
new dermatitis cases
and all skin disease
over last 10 years
Over 1100
occupational dermatitis
cases seen by
dermatologists in 2011
Working with wet
hands and soaps/cleanersare the most common
cause of dermatitis
Most common type
is contact dermatitis
caused by allergens
or irritants
Severity of skin disease
varies widely from minorirritation to severe cases of
dermatitis, as well as skin
cancers
About 35 000
new cases per year
according to
GPs
Florists,
hairdressers, cooks and
beauticians have high rates
of dermatitis
Work-related
Skindisease?
Find out more aboutskin disease statistics
Find out more aboutskin disease controls
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Work-related HEARING loss
Highest rates of
NIHL occur in energy and
extraction, construction and
manufacturing industries
Disease occurs
predominantly
in men
About
20 000 casesestimated
annually
About 200 new claims
are awarded Industrial
Injuries Disablement
Benefit every year
NIHL is a long
latency disease that is
difficult to estimate
accurately
Total number of
cases in Great Britain was
estimated at around 500 000
in 1997/98
Find out more aboutNIHL statistics
Find out more aboutcontrol of noise risks
noise inducedHearingloss (NIHL)?
Work-related,
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Work-related HAND-ARM VIBRATION disorders
Foundry workers,
construction and
manufacturing most
at risk
Disease occurs
predominantly
in men
New cases of both
vibration white finger and
carpal tunnel syndrome
have been declining over
the past decade
Around 1200 new
claims for Industrial Injuries
Disablement Benefit
each year
Disease caused
by use of
hand-held power
tools
1998 study suggested
prevalence of HAVs
was almost 300 000
cases
Find out more aboutHAVs statistics
Find out more aboutcontrol of vibration risks
vibrationdisorders (HAVs)?
Hand-arm
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OVERVIEW WORKPLACE INJURY WORK-RELATED ILL HEALTH COSTS RESOURCES
Find out more aboutcosts to Britain
Largest single cost
is non-financial value
given to pain, grief and
suffering
Costs have fallen in
recent years in line with
falls in illness and injury
numbers
Borne by individuals
(around 60% of total)employers and
Government (around
20% each)
Figures
exclude costs of
cancer - work is underway
to estimate these
Total 13.8 billion per
year resulting from current or
recent working conditions
(2010/11 estimate in 2011
prices)
Greater costs from
ill health (around 60%)
than from injuries
(including fatalities)
EconomicCosts of injuries
and ill health?
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HSE Chief Statistician: Kate Sweeney
Contact:[email protected]
Last updated:October 2013
Next update:October 2014
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