Health and social care sector
Self-reported injuries in the health and social care sector have declined over the past decade whilst employer-reported injuries have increased. There is no measurable trend in the rate of work-related ill-health which has remained largely flat.
In 2010/11 there were:
- about 4.7 million lost working days (1.6 days per worker) due to self-reported work-related illness or workplace injury. Almost 90% of this was illness related (LFS);
- this is the highest days lost per worker in any sector and significantly higher than the average of 0.98 days per worker for all industries (LFS);
- an estimated 104 000 new cases of work-related ill health with rates for stress in particular significantly above the average for all industries (LFS);
- 11 390 reported injuries to employees in the health sector and 6 453 in social care. The majority of the reported injuries are handling injuries (39% for health and 29% for social care) and a quarter are slips and trips (RIDDOR);
- over half of all the reported injuries involving assault arise in the health and social care sector (RIDDOR).
Estimated incidence rates of non-fatal injury per 100 000 people working in health and social care in the last 12 months (all injuries and reportable injuries with over 3 day absence)
