Health and Safety Statistics 2014/15

The release of the annual health and safety statistics marks the biggest event in the health and safety calendar for stats geeks who like to see how the UK compares, not only, with its own year on year record but with other European counties. The increase in fatalities is one of the more unfortunate figures to be revealed and is thought to be due to the higher number of inexperienced workers in employment; a sign of a recovering economy. Scotland, the North West and the South West of England have the worst record in terms of deaths across the UK. Dealing with difficult customers is the most common workplace risk according to employees. This probably has something to do with the high number of service jobs rather than any increase in risk posed by the general public.

Via: https://bryan-armstrong.com/infographics/hse-health-and-safety-statistics-2014-2015/

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Health and Safety Statistics 2014/15

Published on Oct 30, 2015

Billy Trail

Looking at the headline figures, we can see that there’s been a year-on-year increase in fatalities from 136 in 2013/14 to 142 in 2014/15. Non-fatal injuries are down from with over half of reported accidents being slips and trips (28%) or handling, lifting or carrying injuries (23%). In the past year, an estimated 23.3 million working days have been lost to work related ill health, whilst workplace injuries have cost a further 4.1 million working days. The total cost to the economy was estimated to be in excess of £14 billion in 2013/14. There is still a long way to go and there are many more improvements that can be made to improve health and safety standards in the workplace. We can see that 12,430 enforcement notices have been issued.

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