South West government office region (GOR)

Statistics of occupational ill health, safety and enforcement

• In 2008/09, an estimated 107 000 people in the South West, who worked in the last year, believed they were suffering form a work-related illness, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS).  This equates to a prevalence rate of 3900 per 100 000 people (3.9%) working in the last 12 months.
• The incidence rate of reportable non-fatal injury in the South West was 1100 per 100 000 workers (1.1%) in 2007/08 (three-year average), based on results from the LFS.
• In 2008/09, the LFS showed that an estimated 2.5 million working days (full-day equivalent) were lost in the South West due to workplace injury and work-related ill health.
• In 2008/09(p), 22 workers were fatally injured at work, compared with 28 workers in 2007/08. The number of major injuries to employees recorded in South West fell from 2 354 in 2007/08 to 2 346 in 2008/09.
• In the South West, 139 offences were prosecuted by HSE, and 53 offences were prosecuted by local authorities in 2008/09.