health and safety statistics 2014/15
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Looking at the headline figures, we can see that there’s been a year-on-year increase in fatalities from 136 in 2013/14 to 142 in 2014/15. Non-fatal injuries are down from with over half of reported accidents being slips and trips (28%) or handling, lifting or carrying injuries (23%). In the past year, an estimated 23.3 million working days have been lost to work related ill health, whilst workplace injuries have cost a further 4.1 million working days. The total cost to the economy was estimated to be in excess of £14 billion in 2013/14. There is still a long way to go and there are many more improvements that can be made to improve health and safety standards in the workplace. We can see that 12,430 enforcement notices have been issued.TRANSCRIPT
Health and Safety Statistics2014/15
The release of the annual health and safety statistics marks the biggest eventin the health and safety calendar for stats geeks who like to see how the UKcompares, not only, with its own year on year record but with other Europeancounties. The increase in fatalities is one of the more unfortunate figures to berevealed and is thought to be due to the higher number of inexperienced workersin employment; a sign of a recovering economy. Scotland, the North West andthe South West of England have the worst record in terms of deaths across theUK. Dealing with difficult customers is the most common workplace riskaccording to employees. This probably has something to do with the highnumber of service jobs rather than any increase in risk posed by the generalpublic.
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