What Are The Statistics For Work Related Injuries?

In the UK, in 2007/8 these accounted for almost four out of every ten major workplace injuries.  Other national statistics for the same year show that the most common ‘over-three-day injury’ was caused by handling, lifting or carrying.

 

A total of 34 million work days were lost because of work-related accident or illness. Of these, 6 million were due to injuries within the workplace whilst 28 million were ‘work-related’ ill health days.

 

A total of 229 people were killed at work and, although this equates to just 0.8 per c100,000 workers it is still a lot of lives lost.  (long term, death rates have fallen, but the fatality figures have changed very little over the past six years).

 

The most commonly cited workplace hazards involved in accidents/illness were manual handling, sitting for long periods and the handling of harmful substances.
 

In 2007/08, 34 million working days were lost overall (1.4 days per worker) 28 million due to work-related illness |(1.1 days per worker) and 6 million due to workplace injury (0.26 days per worker) .  Working days lost are expressed as full-day equivalents, to allow for the variation in daily hours worked.

 

On average  each person suffering from a work-related illness or a workplace injury took an estimated 16.9 days off work in the last 12 months (on average 21.9 days for ill health and 7.7 days for Injury.
 

In 2007/08 an estimated 213,000 people in Great Britain who had worked in the last year believed they were suffering from a musculoskeletal disorder mainly affecting the upper limbs or neck that was caused or made worse by their current or past work.  This equates to 700 per 100,000 people (0;7 per cent) in Great Britain who worked in the last 12 months.

  

Just over a third of sufferers in 2007/08 (81,000 people) first became aware of their work-related musculoskeletal disorder mainly affecting the upper limbs or neck in the previous 12 months.  This equates to an estimated 270 per 100,000 people (0.27 per cent) with a –new work – related disorder mainly affecting the upper limbs or neck in this period.

 

An estimated 2.8 million working days full-day equivalent) were lost in 2007/08 through the above mentioned disorders

 

These examples are only a fraction of the statistics which prevail on the many different illnesses and injuries which can occur as a result of the workplace or working environment.   

 

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