Each year in November, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) releases its annual statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries, and this month, they have published the latest trends and figures.
For the year 2023/24, key facts and figures published include:
- 1.7 million workers reported work related in health, a decrease on the previous year (which was 1.8 million)
- Just under half of the work related illness cases (776,000) were attributed to work related stress, depression, or anxiety, remaining at similar levels to 2022/23. Whilst 543,000 workers suffered from a work related musculoskeletal disorder.
- 33.7 million working days were lost due to self-reported work-related ill health or injury, a decrease of approximately 2 million compared to the period 2022/23.
- The annual costs of workplace injury and new cases of work-related ill health is £21.6 billion, an increase of almost one billion on the year 2022/23.
- 138 workers were killed in work-related accidents, which is an increase on the period 2022/23, which was 135.
- 604,000 of working people sustained a workplace injury
- 61,663 workers sustained a non-fatal work related injury, reported by employers to RIDDOR, which is an increase of 499,337 on 2022/23.
According to the HSE, the UK compares favourably to other European countries when it comes to health and safety standards. The only other European countries ahead of the UK in this regard, is Malta, Finland, Germany, Ireland and Norway.
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