Statistics on Accident at Work in UK

Posted by katyjackson401 on November 13th, 2012

People who experienced an accident at work are interested to know about the health and safety statistics of Britain. The Health and Safety Executive provides a guide for the health and safety statistics of 2011/2012.

The report shows data on the ill health and diseases, safety and enforcement in the United Kingdom. For the ill health/disease, it gives an account on the number of people who experienced accident at work, the percentage of work-related ill health for various groups like by industry or occupation and the estimated deaths due accident at work. For the safety category of the report, it presents the number of people and percentage of accident at work for different groups of workers. It also includes report on the number of dangerous occurrence from the employers. The enforcement category shows the number of companies prosecuted for violating the health and safety legislation and the number of notices served by health and safety inspectors. The last category focuses on the impact of the injury and diseases to government and employers.

Three sets of graph illustrate the comparisons of health and safety indicators. It clearly shows the percentage of diseases and work related injuries in three categories namely, self-reported health and safety incidents, the number of working days lost due to health and safety incidents and work-related deaths by cause. Diseases and work-related includes the Musculoskeletal, stress, injury and other illness. The self-reported health and safety incidents pie chart indicates that injury gets the biggest share of the graph which means there huge number of self-reported injuries at work. Stress gets the second highest recorded cases of work related incidents followed by musculoskeletal and other illness. The number of working days lost due to health and safety incidents shows that stress tops the major causes of absences with a little difference from Musculoskeletal, the second major reasons of absences in the UK followed by injury and other illness. The last pie chart which is work-related deaths by cause shows that cancer is the most common cause of deaths which covers more than half of the graph. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, other illness and injury gets the remaining share left uncovered by cancer.

What is the implication of this report to the health and safety of the employees? The date can be taken as warning to employees. Employers should also comply with the rules and regulations required by law so that there will be a decrease on the incidence of work accidents in the UK.