The sector is made up of a range of diverse industries with an estimated 2.8m workers.
Over the past 5 years, each year an average of 31 workers died in workplace accidents, there were an average of more than 4 500 reports of major injuries and about 19 500 reports of injuries that kept workers away from work for three days or more.
Many manufacturing workers also suffer ill health from workplace exposures.
Further information is available about the following manufacturing industries:
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