In addition to the news releases, on this page you will find the latest, detailed statistics [56KB] relating to the 'Shattered Lives' campaign, relevant to the industries targeted and broken down by local authority area.

Statistics

Food retail:

• Last year, slips, trips and falls in the food retail industry cost society £31m
• Slips, trips and falls account for more than a third (38%) of all major workplace injuries
• Over a third of all the injuries reported to the HSE last year in the food manufacturing and food retail industries were caused by a slip, trip or fall

Food manufacturing:

• Slips, trips and falls account for more than a third (38%) of all major workplace injuries
• Over a third of all the injuries reported to the HSE last year in the food manufacturing and food retail industries were caused by a slip, trip or fall
• Last year, slips, trips and falls in the food manufacturing industry cost society £25m

Construction building and plant maintenance:

• 23 people died last year from falling in the building and plant maintenance and construction industries
• Every week one person dies from a slip, trip or fall in the workplace and just under half of these are in the construction, building and plant maintenance industries
• Of the almost 11,000 injuries reported to the HSE last year from slips, trips and falls nearly half (46%) of these were from the construction, building and plant maintenance industries
• Last year, slips, trips and falls in the construction, building and plant maintenance industry cost society £139m

Catering and hospitality:

• Slips, trips and falls account for over 50% of major injuries at work in the catering and hospitality industry
• Last year, 1863 people were injured as a result of a slip, trip or fall in the workplace in the catering and hospitality industry
• Last year in the catering and hospitality industry, slips and trips at work cost society £31m