Work-related injuries and ill health in manufacturing industries - Summary

• In the last few years the rate of reported major injuries to employees in manufacturing has fallen.
• Within manufacturing, the sub-group recycling has a rate of reported major injury over five times the rate for manufacturing as a whole, and over eight times the rate for all industries in 2008/09p.
• Relative to other industries, a higher proportion of reported injuries in manufacturing as a whole were caused by contact with moving machinery, being hit by a moving/falling object, hit by something fixed/stationary and contact with harmful substances.
• Self-reported data indicates that the prevalence rate of work-related ill health in 2008/09 was of a similar order in manufacturing as across all industries, based on results from the Labour Force Survey.
• In 2008/09, the LFS showed that an estimated 2.5 million working days (full-day equivalent) were lost in this industry due to workplace injury and work-related ill health.