England

Statistics of occupational ill health, safety and enforcement

Working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injuries

Data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) indicates that in 2008/09 the combined estimate of the number of working days lost (full-day equivalent) due to workplace injury and work-related ill health in England was 24.8 million. This equates to an average annual loss of an estimated 1.2 days per worker, similar (not statistically significantly different) to the rates of 1.4 days in 2007/08 and 1.3 days in 2005/06, but statistically significantly lower than the rates of 1.5 days in both 2006/07 and 2004/05, and 1.6 days in 2003/04.

Workplace injuries and work-related illness accounted for an estimated 4.1 million and 20.6 million working days lost (full-day equivalent) respectively in 2008/09, with corresponding rates of 0.20 and 1.0 days per worker.
The injury rate was of a similar order (not statistically significantly different) to the corresponding rates of 0.26 days in 2007/08,  0.24 days in 2006/07 and 0.26 in 2005/06, but was statistically significantly lower than the rates of 0.30 days in 2004/05 and 0.35 days in 2003/04. 

However, the ill health rate was of a similar order (not statistically significantly different) to the corresponding rates of 1.1 days in 2007/08 and 1.0 days in 2005/06, but was statistically significantly lower than the rates in 2006/07 and 2004/05 (both 1.2 days) and 1.3 days in 2003/04 (See Table WDLGOR).