Figures You Can’t Ignore: 2014/2015 Health & Safety Stastics

Each year the Health & Safety Executive pull together the industries statistics on health and safety. Understanding the everyday risks that workplace can hold is the start to understanding how you can protect not only your company but your workers too. Here are 2014/2015 statistics, you just can’t ignore.

Key figures for GB

• 142 workers killed at work
• 1.2 million working people suffering from a work-related illness
• 76,000 other injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR
• 611,000 injuries occurred at work according to the Labour Force Survey
• 27.3 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury
• £14.3 billion estimated cost of injuries and ill health from current working conditions (2013/14)
• 600,0001 workers are injured in workplace accidents
• 500,0002 workers suffer a new case of ill health which they believe is caused or made worse by their work

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Thanks to HSE for the statistics. Find out more here.