We’ve talked about it before, but health and safety has a particularly bad reputation in the UK for being a little over-the-top. It’s easy to take the processes and procedures for granted and forget the benefits that these safe practices bring with them.
According to the Health and Safety Executive (www.hse.gov.uk), rates of injury at work have reduced substantially over the past decade. There have been falls in both self-reported injury and injuries reported by employers, so obviously health and safety culture is doing something right.
- An estimated 591 000 workers had an accident at work in 2011/12 – 212 000 of these injuries led to over 3 days absence from work and 156 000 to over 7 days (LFS).
- Self-reported non-fatal injuries have fallen by an average 6% each year since 2003/04 (LFS).
- Employers reported 114 000 injuries to workers in 2011/12, 24 000 of which were classified as major injuries (RIDDOR).
- The number of injuries reported by employers has fallen in nine of the last ten years with average annual falls of 4% over the decade (RIDDOR).
- Self-reported results suggest that just over half of reportable non-fatal injuries to employees are recorded under RIDDOR, with the self-employed reporting a much smaller proportion.
- 173 workers were fatally injured at work in 2011/12 which compares with an annual average of 196 worker fatalities from 2006/07 to 2010/11 (RIDDOR).
Adaptation of data from http://www.hse.gov.uk
There’s no denying it, the number of injuries sustained within the workplace has fallen. At ECEX, we pride ourselves on good health and safety practice because our staff matter. So too do our customers and the people around them. You can never been too careful, but you can very easily not be careful enough.
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