Key annual figures 2007/08

Ill health

• 2.1 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
• 1.3 million of these cases were suffered by people working during the year, of which 563 000 were new cases.
• 2056 people died of mesothelioma (2006), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases.

Injuries

• 229 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
• 136 771 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 517.9 per 100 000 employees.
• 299 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 1000 per 100 000 workers.

Working days lost

• 34 million days were lost overall (1.4 days per worker), 28 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.

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Key publications

• Health and safety statistics 2007/08 [1.60MB]
  Health and safety statistics 2007/08 presents the latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great Britain. [Published 10/08].
• Tables to supplement Health and safety statistics 2007/08
• Self-reported work related illness and workplace injuries in 2007/08: top-level tables.

• Fatal injuries - Latest full year figures for 2007/08p
  Provisional statistics on workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain and trends in recent years. [Published 06/08].

• Self-reported work-related illness and workplace injuries in 2006/07: Results from the Labour Force Survey [1.18MB]
  A report providing results from a survey of self-reported work-related illness and workplace injury to gain a national view based on individuals’ perceptions. [Published 05/08]

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Research

• Research on trends and context to rates of workplace injury [Published 12/05]
• An analysis of temporal and national variations in reported injury rate
  [Published 04/00]