Wales

Statistics of occupational ill health, safety and enforcement

• In 2008/09, an estimated 45 000 people in Wales, who worked in the last year, believed they were suffering from a work-related illness, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS).  This equates to a prevalence rate of 3200 per 100 000 people (3.2%) working in the last 12 months.
• The incidence rate of reportable non-fatal injury in Wales 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 1.5 million working days (full-day equivalent) were lost in Wales due to workplace injury and work-related ill health.
• In 2008/09(p), 5 workers were fatally injured at work, compared with 19 workers in 2007/08. The number of major injuries to employees recorded in Wales fell from 1 753 in 2007/08 to 1 620 in 2008/09(p).
• In Wales, 44 offences were prosecuted by HSE, and 23 offences were prosecuted by local authorities in 2008/09