HSE publish health and safety statistics for 2019 to 2020
10 November 2020
Article: 54/4511
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual report concerning statistics for work-related ill health, workplace injuries, working days lost, enforcement action taken, and the associated costs in Great Britain.
Key figures from the report include:
- 1.6 million people experienced a work-related illness
- 111 people killed at their place of work
- 693,000 injuries occurred at work, according to the Labour Force Survey
- 65,427 injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR
- 38.8 million working days lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury
- £16.2 billion is the estimated cost of injuries and ill-health from current working condition
Source: HSE, November 2020