Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Statistics
Estimated days (full-day equivalent) off work and associated average days lost per (full-time equivalent) worker due to self-reported musculoskeletal disorders caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by workplace size.
| Number of people in workplace + | Illness ascribed to the current or most recent job | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample cases$ | Days lost (thousands) | Average days lost per worker | |||||
| 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 | 60 | 1216 | 575 | 1858 | 0.49 | 0.23 | 0.75 |
| 1-24 employees | 93 | 1422 | 884 | 1960 | 0.21 | 0.13 | 0.28 |
| 25+ employees | 264 | 4950 | 3809 | 6092 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.45 |
| Missing | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 1-49 employees | 147 | 2008 | 1409 | 2608 | 0.21 | 0.15 | 0.27 |
| 50+ employees | 210 | 4364 | 3253 | 5475 | 0.40 | 0.30 | 0.50 |
| Missing | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job) | 418 | 7590 | 6175 | 9005 | 0.33 | 0.27 | 0.39 |
| Other job caused illness, workplace size unknown# | 91 | 1860 | 1192 | 2528 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total (illness ascribed to any job) | 509 | 9450 | 7885 | 11015 | 0.41 | 0.34 | 0.48 |
.. 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.
$ For people taking time off work
# 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.