Overall picture for Great Britain

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Key annual figures 2008/09

Ill health

• 1.2 million people who worked during the last year were suffering from an illness (long standing as well as new cases) they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work. 551 000 of these were new cases.

Injuries

• 180 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.6 per 100 000 workers.
• 131 895 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 502.2 per 100 000 employees.
• 246 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 870 per 100 000 workers.

Working days lost

• 29.3 million days were lost overall (1.24 days per worker), 24.6 million due to work-related ill health and 4.7 million due to workplace injury.

Key publications

• Health and safety statistics 2008/09
  Health and safety statistics 2008/09 presents the latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great Britain. [Published 10/09].
• Tables to supplement Health and safety statistics 2008/09
• Self-reported work-related illness (SWI) and workplace injuries
  Results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) - Index of tables
• Fatal injuries - Latest full year figures for 2008/09
  Provisional statistics on workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain and trends in recent years. [Published 06/09].
• Self-reported work-related illness and workplace injuries in 2007/08: Results from the Labour Force Survey
  A report providing results from a survey of self-reported work-related illness and workplace injury to gain a national view based on individuals’ perceptions. [Published 05/08]

Research

• Research on trends and context to rates of workplace injury
  [Published 12/05]
• An analysis of temporal and national variations in reported injury rate
  [Published 04/00]