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Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Statistics and
the SME perspective
November 2013
Health and Safety Executive
Whole economy
overview
Fatal injuries in the workplace
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Self-employedEmployeeWorker fatal injury rate
•Fatalities to workers reduced slightly in 2012/13 (148 compared with 171 in 2011/12)
• Evidence of a levelling off in downward trend over past 5 years
Self-reported injuries (LFS)
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Underlying trend in RIDDOR data
•Change to Over-7-Day reporting from Over-3-Day reduced reports by approximately 30% (no suggestion that the change affected major injury reporting)• Modelling suggests the underlying trend is still downwards for the whole economy series
New cases of work-related ill health2011/12
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Days lost from work-related injury or illness
• 5.2 million working days were lost in 2012/13 due to injury – on average 8.1 days per injury
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Cost to society of H&S failings2006/07-2011/12 (2011 prices)
•Workplace injuries and ill health (excluding cancer) cost society an estimated £13.8bn in 2010/11 (2011 prices)
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Injury Illness
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SME statistics – some challenges
• RIDDOR suffers from substantial underreporting, and this is a particular issue for injuries in SMEs and the self-employed. Workplace size field is also poorly recorded
• Reliance on survey data to give a fair comparisonBUT small sample sizes often prevent detailed
exploration
Work-related ill health2011/12
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Rates of work-related MSD2011/12
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• No difference in levels of musculoskeletal disorders by organisation size
Rates of work-related stress2011/12
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• Total cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety are higher in large organisations than in SMEs
Rate of injury (over 3 day absence)3 year average – 2010/11-2012/13
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• Medium sized organisations have higher injury rates than either small or large – but all have shown a decrease in injury levels over time
Injury and ill health rates for SMEs by industry sector 5 year average rates
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Accommodation and food services Transportation and storage Information, financial activities, real estate Public administration
Education Human health and social work Other service activities
How is H&S managed in practice at the workplace
• Effective health and safety management practices in the workplace fundamental to securing improvement in health and safety outcomes.
• 2009 pan-European survey showed workplaces generally take coherent, systems-based approach to occupational health and safety management. – However, level of preventive action varies
according to a number of factors, most importantly workplace size.
How is H&S managed in practice at the workplace
• Plans underway for repeating 2009 European survey next year;
• HSE is hoping to collaborate with EU-OSHA to increase the value of the UK results
• Will provide a wealth of data on how management practices vary by industry sector and workplace size;
• Will update the group with developments at next meeting
Summary
• Overall improvements in health and safety outcomes over past decade
• Lower ill health rates in SMEs– Difference is stress – higher levels in large organisations
• Some inconsistency in injury rates but all organisation sizes have improved over time
• SMEs less likely to have coherent systems-based approach to health and safety management
HSE User Engagement Conference
• 21st January 2014 at Redgrave Court in Liverpool
• Opportunity for our data users to feed back their own experiences of using HSE’s statistics
• Topics to be covered include:
Hints and tips for benchmarking data
Top frustrations with the statistics – what are they, why do they exist and what are we doing about it?
Ongoing research including a look at the Harm Index, analysis of occupation groups and research into shift-work
• Attendance is free – contact [email protected] to express an interest and find out more information.
Health and Safety Executive
Find out morewww.hse.gov.uk/statistics
