Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Statistics
Estimated prevalence and rates of self-reported musculoskeletal disorders caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by workplace size, for people working in the last 12 months.
| Number of people in workplace + | Illness ascribed to their current/most recent job | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample cases | Estimated prevalence (thousands) | Rate per 100 000 employed in the last 12 months | |||||
| central | 95% C.I. | central | 95% C.I. | ||||
| lower | upper | lower | upper | ||||
| Illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job | |||||||
| Self employed on own or with partners but no employees | 114 | 62 | 51 | 74 | 2180 | 1780 | 2590 |
| 1-24 employees | 208 | 113 | 98 | 129 | 1220 | 1050 | 1390 |
| 25+ employees | 452 | 242 | 219 | 264 | 1440 | 1310 | 1580 |
| Missing | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 1-49 employees | 298 | 161 | 143 | 180 | 1260 | 1120 | 1410 |
| 50+ employees | 362 | 194 | 173 | 214 | 1460 | 1300 | 1610 |
| Missing | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job) | 777 | 419 | 389 | 449 | 1430 | 1330 | 1540 |
| Other job caused illness, workplace size unknown# | 234 | 128 | 111 | 144 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total (illness ascribed to any job) | 1011 | 546 | 512 | 581 | 1870 | 1750 | 1990 |
.. Not applicable
+ Relates to the number of people at their workplace, which is not necessarily the same as the number of people working for the company.
# Includes those who did not answer the question identifying the job to which their illness was ascribed and those who said their illness was ascribed to a job other than their current or most recent in the last 12 months.