Table THORM04

Work-related upper limb disorders: estimated number of cases reported by rheumatologists to MOSS and by occupational physicians to OPRA and estimated rates per 100 000 workers per year, by occupation 2005-2007

Occupation(a)			Rheumatologists (MOSS)(p)		Occupational physicians (OPRA)(b)(p)
			Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	Rate per 100 000 workers per year(d)	Annual average estimated cases(c) 2005-2007	Rate per 100 000 workers per year(d)
	SOC2000
	Major group	Unit group
Managers and Senior Officials	1		36	1	36	1
Professional Occupations	2		56	2	87	2
Associate Professional and Technical Occupations	3		130	3	319	8
Laboratory technicians		3111	4	7	18	30
Nurses		3211	29	6	45	9
Medical radiographers		3214	4	19	22	103
Pharmaceutical dispensers		3217	4	12	18	55
Police officers (sergeant and below)		3312	13	8	36	23
Journalists, newspaper and periodical editors		3431	4	7	15	25
Broadcasting associate professionals		3432	-	-	16	37
Adminstrative and Secretarial Occupations	4		187	6	226	7
Civil Service administrative officers and assistants		4112	13	6	5	2
Local government clerical officers and assistants		4113	5	3	27	14
Accounts and wages clerks, book-keepers, other financial clerks		4122	5	1	9	2
Counter clerks		4123	26	14	-	-
Filing and other records assistants/clerks		4131	16	10	10	6
Database assistants/clerks		4136	13	19	29	42
General office assistants/clerks		4150	28	4	64	10
Personal assistants and other secretaries		4215	40	12	27	8
Typists		4217	18	145	5	40
Skilled Trades Occupations	5		265	9	371	12
Gardeners and groundsmen/groundswomen		5113	20	12	62	38
Welding trades		5215	17	23	25	33
Metal working production and maintenance fitters		5223	21	9	33	15
Motor mechanics, auto engineers		5231	6	3	22	11
Electricians, electrical fitters		5241	18	8	47	20
Bricklayers, masons		5312	5	5	7	8
Plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers		5314	28	16	31	18
Carpenters and joiners		5315	22	8	41	16
Construction trades n.e.c.		5319	7	3	4	2
Chefs, cooks		5434	47	20	4	2
Glass and ceramics makers, decorators and finishers		5491	4	27	5	34
Personal Service Occupations	6		83	4	81	4
Nursing auxiliaries and assistants		6111	5	2	32	16
Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics)		6112	-	-	23	131
Care assistants and home carers		6115	25	4	24	4
Hairdressers, barbers		6221	22	14	-	-
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	7		43	2	44	2
Sales and retail assistants		7111	23	2	21	2
Retail cashiers and check-out operators		7112	14	5	5	2
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives	8		226	11	406	20
Food, drink and tobacco process operatives		8111	20	14	44	30
Chemical and related process operatives		8114	-	-	30	66
Metal working machine operatives		8125	13	17	19	24
Assemblers (electrical products)		8131	1	2	12	25
Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods)		8132	74	142	29	56
Assemblers and routine operatives n.e.c.		8139	5	9	30	53
Road construction operatives		8142	9	35	89	346
Construction operatives n.e.c.		8149	1	1	21	25
Heavy goods vehicle drivers		8211	9	3	19	6
Elementary Occupations	9		171	5	191	6
Labourers in building and woodworking trades		9121	37	19	14	7
Packers, bottlers, canners, fillers		9134	17	13	19	15
Labourers in process and plant operations n.e.c.		9139	8	10	15	20
Other goods handling and storage occupations n.e.c.		9149	14	4	37	10
Postal workers, mail sorters, messengers, couriers		9211	8	4	11	5
Kitchen and catering assistants		9223	5	1	9	2
Cleaners, domestics		9233	41	7	26	5
All occupations			1358	5	1767	6

Notes:

(a) All SOC2000 Major Groups are shown, as are SOC2000 Unit Groups with 10 or more actual cases reported to either MOSS or OPRA over the period 2005-2007. 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.