Table THORI03

Work-related infections: average number of cases reported by Consultants in Communicable Disease Control to SIDAW and by Occupational Physicians to OPRA, estimated rates per 100 000 workers per year, by occupation 2004-2006

Occupation(a)	SOC2000		Consultants in Communicable Disease Control (SIDAW)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b) (p)
			Consultants in Communicable Disease Control (SIDAW)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b) (p)
			Annual average actual cases 2004-2006	Rate per 100,000 workers per year 2004-2006(d)	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2004-2006	Rate per 100,000 workers per year 2004-2006(d)
	major group	unit group
	major group	unit group
Managers and Senior Officials	1		5	-	-	-
Professional Occupations	2		68	2	4	-
Secondary education teaching professionals		2314	40	11	-	-
Primary and nursery education teaching professional		2315	13	4	-	-
Speical needs education teaching professional		2316	12	17	-	-
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	3		52	1	23	1
Nurses		3211	32	7	5	1
NCOs and other ranks		3311	10	19	-	-
Adminstrative and Secretarial Occupations	4		1	-	-	-
Skilled Trades Occupations	5		12	-	5	-
Chefs, cooks		5434	6	2	-	-
Personal Service Occupations	6		1182	55	12	1
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants		6111	135	66	12	6
Care assistants and home carers		6115	916	154	-	-
Nursery nurses		6121	48	31	-	-
Childminders and related occuaptions		6122	5	5	-	-
Educational assistants		6124	64	17	-	-
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	7		2	-	-	-
Process, Plant and Mechine Operatives	8		5	-	-	-
Elementary Occupations	9		36	1	-	-
Farm workers		9111	4	7	-	-
Kitchen and catering assistants		9223	4	1	-	-
Leisure and theme park attendants		9226	8	49	-	-
Elementary personal services occupations n.e.c.		9229	9	43	-	-
Cleaners, domestics		9233	6	1	-	-
Total - all occupations			1376	5	45	-

Notes:

(a) All SOC2000 major groups are shown, as are SOC2000 unit groups with 10 or more actual cases reported to SIDAW and OPRA over the period 2004-2006. Figures are shown in light type if they are based on fewer than 10 actual cases.
(b) Comparisons of rates based on OPRA reports are likely to be misleading because workers in some occupations are much more likely to have access to occupational physicians than those in others.
(c) Some physicians report on a sample basis, for one month in each year. Estimated totals for these are calculated by multiplying the actual number of cases reported by 12.
(d) The rates have been calculated using the average of the Office for National Statistics Annual Population Survey (APS) denominators for the years 2004-2006.
"-" can mean zero or rounds to zero.
nec - not elsewhere classified.
(p) Provisional