ACCIDENT AND INJURY STATISTICS

HSE figures identify that there were 171 fatal injuries in the year to March 2011, up from 147 in the previous 12 months.

Experts are worried that cutting back on training and maintenance during the recession could be partly responsible for the rise and the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH) warning that ongoing “belt-tightening” could be causing the rise in deaths at work.


Construction and agricultural industries report the highest levels of work-related injuries, with disproportionately high numbers of incidents, however the figures show a continued fall in the number of people injured at work.

These were:

• Just over 90,000 injuries serious enough to keep people off work for four or more days - a rate of 363.1 injuries per 100,000 workers - down from the 96,427 the previous year.
• A rate of 99 major injuries per 100,000 workers, such as amputations, fractures and burns, also down slightly from the previous year.
• An estimated 1.2 million people said they were suffering from an illness caused or made worse by their work, down from 1.3 million in 2009/10.
• The total injuries and ill-health resulted in 26.4m working days being lost which equates to an average of 15 days per case, 22.1m of which were ill-health and 4.4m of which were injury related.

Experts are concerned that this could be a delayed knock-on effect of recession and belt-tightening resulting in the cutting back on training and maintenance.


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