East of England government office region (GOR)

Statistics of occupational ill health, safety and enforcement

• In 2008/09, an estimated 125 000 people in the East, who worked in the last year, believed they were suffering from a work-related illness, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS).  This equates to a prevalence rate of 4100 per 100 000 people (4.1%) working in the last 12 months.
• The incidence rate of reportable non-fatal injury in the East of England was 930 per 100 000 workers (0.93%) in 2007/08 (three-year average), based on results from the LFS.
• In 2008/09, the LFS showed that an estimated 2.6 million working days (full-day equivalent) were lost in the East due to workplace injury and work-related ill health.
• In 2008/09(p), 12 workers were fatally injured at work, compared with 19 workers in 2007/08. The number of major injuries to employees recorded in the East fell from 2 438 in 2007/08 to 2 335 in 2008/09.
• In the East, 122 offences were prosecuted by HSE, and 7 offences were prosecuted by local authorities in 2008/09.