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standards set out in the National Statistics Code of Practice.

They undergo regular quality assurance reviews to ensure

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Health and safety statistics highlights 2005

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Contents

Key facts page 4

Work-related ill health pages 5-7

Workplace injuries pages 8-10

Enforcement pages 11-13

Countries and Regions pages 14-15

Industry sectors page 16

Occupation groups page 17

Progress against targets pages 18-23

Sources and definitions pages 24-27


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Key facts

This document gives the latest statistics on work-related health and

safety in Great Britain. More detail is at www.hse.gov.uk/statistics.

Key facts for 2008/09 are:

Ill health

1.2 million people who worked during the last year were suffering

from an illness (long-standing as well as new cases) they believed

was caused or made worse by their current or past work. 551 000 of

these were new cases.

2156 people died of mesothelioma (2007), and thousands more from

other occupational cancers and lung diseases.

Injuries

180 workers were killed at work, a rate of0.6 per 100 000 workers.

131 895 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a

rate of502.2 per 100 000 employees.

246 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force

Survey (LFS), a rate of870 per 100 000 workers.

Working days lost

29.3 million days were lost overall (1.24 days per worker), 24.6 million

due to work-related ill health and 4.7 million due to workplace injury.

Health and safety targets: progress to 2008/09Ill health: probably not on track to meet Revitalising target.

Fatal and major injuries: on track to meet Revitalising target.

Days lost per worker: probably on track to meet Revitalising

target.

Enforcement

1245 offences were prosecuted by HSE and ORR.329 offences were prosecuted by local authorities.


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Figure 1: Mesothelioma deaths and disablement benefit cases 1981-2008

Disablement benefitDeath certificates

Fatal diseases

Each year thousands of people die from work-related diseases

mainly due to exposures many years ago.

The number of cancer deaths must be estimated rather than counted.

Emerging findings from work to produce up-to-date estimates suggest

the annual number of work-related cancer deaths is currently around

8000. The next phase of the project will seek to estimate the number

of cancers that will result from current conditions.

About 4000 cancer deaths each year are due to past exposure to

asbestos.

In 2007 there were 96 deaths from asbestosis (as underlying

cause), and 156 from other types of pneumoconiosis, mostly dueto coal dust and silica.

Around 15% of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD

including bronchitis and emphysema) may be work related. This

suggests there could be some 4000 COPD deaths each year due

to past occupational exposures to fumes, chemicals and dusts.

The total number of mesothelioma deaths has increased from 153

in 1968 to 2156 in 2007. There were 1812 deaths among men in

2007 with the annual number predicted to increase to a peak over

2000 around the year 2016.

Deaths occurring now reflect industrial conditions of the past.Male deaths under 55 have been falling since the mid 1990s.

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Self-reported ill health

In 2008/09 an estimated 1.2 million people who had worked in

the last 12 months suffered from ill health which they thought was

work related, according to the LFS.Musculoskeletal disorders and stress were the most commonly

reported illness types.

0 100 200 300 400 500 600

Back mainly affected

Lower limbs mainly affected

Stress, depression or anxiety

Breathing or lung problems

Infectious disease

Upper limbs or neck mainly affected

Any musculoskeletal disorders

Figure 2: Estimated prevalence of self-reported work-related illness, by type ofillness, for people working in the last 12 months, 2008/09

Estimated prevalence (thousands) 95% confidence interval

Type of illness 2008/09 prevalence* (thousands)

Central 95%estimate confidence interval

lower upperMusculoskeletal disorders 538 501 574

Mainly affecting the back 227 203 251

Mainly affecting the upper limbs or neck 215 192 238

Mainly affecting the lower limbs 96 81 111Stress, depression or anxiety 415 382 448

Breathing or lung problems 39 29 48

Infectious disease 33 23 42

Total 1182 1126 1237

* for people working in the last 12 months

Note: Some types of complaint are not listed (eg heart disease, skin problems) so the estimates do not sum

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Musculoskeletal disorders

Other diagnoses

Respiratory disease

Audiological disorders

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Skin disease

Mental ill health

Figure 3: Proportion of cases and days lost by diagnosis as reported by General Practitioners for 20062008

Diagnoses Certified days lost

2.4%

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3.9%

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Reports of ill health by doctors and specialist physicians

Since 2005 a surveillance scheme has collected reports of

new cases of work-related ill health from a sample of around

300 general practitioners (GPs). The data confirms thatmusculoskeletal disorders are the most common type of work-

related illness, but that mental ill health gives rise to more working

days lost. According to these data the overall incidence of work-

related ill health is roughly 1500 cases per 100 000 workers

(similar to the estimate from the LFS see page 19).

Other surveillance schemes collect reports from specialist

physicians on specific types of work-related ill health. For

example, in 2008 the scheme involving hospital dermatologistsrecorded over 1200 confirmed cases of work-related dermatitis.

Ill health assessed for industrial injuries disablement

benefit (IIDB)

Figures for the last three years show that an average of about

5500 cases were assessed for IIDB. The largest categories were

vibration white finger, carpal tunnel syndrome and respiratory

diseases associated with past exposures to substances such as

asbestos and coal dust.


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Number of fatal injuries Rate of fatal injury

Figure 4:Number and rate of fatal injuries to workers

Rate of fatal injury per 100 000 workers

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Employees Self-employed Workers Year Number Rate (a) Number Rate (b) Number Rate (c)

2002/03 183 0.7 44 1.3 227 0.8

2003/04 168 0.7 68 1.8 236 0.8

2004/05 172 0.7 51 1.3 223 0.8

2005/06 164 0.6 53 1.4 217 0.7

2006/07 191 0.7 56 1.4 247 0.8

2007/08 178 0.7 55 1.4 233 0.8

2008/09p 129 0.5 51 1.3 180 0.6

(a) per 100 000 employees (b) per 100 000 self-employed (c) per 100 000 workers

Fatal injuries to workers

There were 180 workers fatally injured in 2008/09 (provisional),

equivalent to a rate of 0.6 fatalities per 100 000 workers.

The inclusion of the 2008/09 data into the time series belowreinforces an underlying downward trend that previously seemed

to levelling off.

The rate for 2008/09 represents a statistically significant decrease

compared to the average rate for the last five years.

Of the main industrial sectors, construction and agriculture have

the highest rates. These sectors accounted for 53 and 26 fatalities

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Number of major injuries Rate of major injury

Figure 5: Number and rate of reported major injuries to employees

Rate of reported major injury per 100 000 employees

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Change in recording of reported injuries

Year Employees Self-employed WorkersNumber Rate (a) Number Rate (b) Number Rate (c)

Major injury

2006/07 28 544 108.8 1 194 30.1 29 738 98.4

2007/08 28 199 106.7 1 190 29.5 29 389 96.5

2008/09p 27 594 105.1 1 098 27.3 28 692 94.8

Over-3-day injury

2006/07 114 653 436.8 1 146 28.9 115 799 383.2

2007/08 110 054 416.4 1 121 27.8 111 175 364.9

2008/09p 104 301 397.2 921 22.9 105 222 347.5

(a) per 100 000 employees (b) per 100 000 self-employed (c) per 100 000 workersNote: See page 25 for definitions of major and over-3-day injuries.

Reported non-fatal injuries

There were 27 594 major injuries to employees reported in

2008/09, and the rate of injury was 105.1 per 100 000. Over one

third were caused by slipping or tripping.There were 104 301 other injuries to employees causing absence

from work of over three days, equivalent to a rate of 397.2.

Around two fifths were caused by handling, lifting or carrying, and

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Labour Force Survey and reporting of injuries

The rate of reportable injury estimated from the Labour Force

Survey (LFS) was 870 per 100 000 workers in 2008/09, statistically

significantly lower than in 2007/08.Comparing this with the RIDDOR rate of reported major and over

3-day injury, the estimated level of reporting by employers was 58%.

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Rate of non-fatal injury

Figure 6: Rate of reportable non-fatal injury to employees and LFS rate

95% confidence interval

LFS rate of reportable non-fatal injury per 100 000 workers

2005/06 2006/07

Rate of RIDDOR reported non-fatal injury per 100 000 employees

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of reportable non-fatal injury to workers

RIDDOR-reported injury LFS reportable Estimatedrate to employees (a) injury rate to workers (b) percentage of

Central 95% confidence interval injuries reportedestimate lower upper

2004/05 590 1 200 1 100 1 290 49%

2005/06 565 1 090 990 1 180 52%

2006/07 546 1 000 910 1 090 55%

2007/08 523 1 050 950 1 140 50%

2008/09p 502 870 780 960 58%

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Number of enforcement notices

Figure 7: Number of enforcement notices issued by all enforcing authorities

Number of notices issued by local authorities Number of notices issued by HSE*

Enforcement notices

In 2008/09, there were 8054 enforcement notices issued by HSE,

compared to 7758 in 2007/08. In addition, the Office of Rail Regulation

(ORR) issued 33 and 21 notices respectively for those years.In 2008/09 local authorities issued 6340 notices, compared to 6010

in 2007/08.

This gives a total of 14 427 enforcement notices issued by all

enforcing authorities in 2008/09.

Improvement Deferred Immediate Total

2006/07 HSE 5 139 54 3 041 8 234

ORR 26 - 14 40

Local authorities 5 270 50 1 640 6 960

Total 10 435 104 4 695 15 2342007/08 HSE 4 525 45 3 188 7 758

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Total 9 776 84 4 567 14 427

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Number of offences prosecuted/convictions

Figure 8: Number of offences prosecuted and convictions HSE

Number of convictionsNumber of offences prosecuted

Offences prosecuted Convictions

HSE ORR HSE ORR

2004/05 1 320 - 1 025 -

2005/06 1 056 - 840 -

2006/07 1 041 10 846 6

2007/08 1 058 4 851 4

2008/09p 1 090 14 846 14

*In Scotland, the Procurator Fiscal prosecutes on behalf of HSE; such prosecutions are included in the abovefigures.

Prosecutions taken by HSE*

In 2008/09, there were 1245 offences prosecuted by HSE and

ORR, heard in that year. Of these, 1104 were completed, resulting

in 860 convictions (78%). ORR accounted for 14 offences, allresulting in convictions.

Offences prosecuted count individual breaches of separate health

and safety legislation. A dutyholder may be prosecuted for more

than one breach within the same case. In 2008/09, 600 cases led

to the 1104 offences with a conviction secured in 548 cases (91%).

In 2008/09, convicted organisations received fines totalling

12.4 million, with average penalties of 14 614 per breach and

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Figure 9: Number of offences prosecuted/convictions

Number of convictionsNumber of offences prosecuted

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Prosecutions taken by local authorities

Offences prosecuted Convictions

2003/04 410 354

2004/05 332 281

2005/06 257 247

2006/07 340 314

2007/08 354 334

2008/09 329 309

In 2008/09, a total of 329 offences prosecuted (breaches) were

heard in that year, resulting in 309 convictions, a rate of 94%.

These offences relate to 142 cases, of which 139 (98%) secureda conviction against at least one breach.

In 2008/09, those organisations found guilty of health and safety

breaches received fines totalling 1.73 million, giving average

penalties on conviction of 5607 per breach, which relates to

12 466 per case.


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Figure 10: Estimated incidence rates of self-reported work-related illness and

reportable non-fatal injury, by industry, for people working in the last

12 months, average 2006/072008/09

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Prevalence rate (per 100 000 working in last 12 months)InjuryIllness 95% confidence interval

Health/social work (SIC N)

Extraction/utilities (SIC C, E) Injury sample cases too small to provide reliable rates

Injury sample cases too small to provide reliable rates

Public admin (SIC L)

Transport/comms (SIC I)

Education (SIC M)

Manufacturing (SIC D)

Agriculture (SIC A, B)

Finance (SIC J)

Other services (SIC O)

Business (SIC K)

Wholesale/retail (SIC G)

Hotels (SIC H)

All industries*

Construction (SIC F)

Source: Labour Force Survey.

Restricted to injuries/ill health in current or most recent job.

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Figure 11: Estimated incidence rates of self-reported work-related illness and

reportable non-fatal injury, by occupation, for people working in the

last 12 months, average 2006/072008/09

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Averaged rate (per 100 000)

InjuryIllness 95% confidence interval

Personal service occupations(SOC 6)

Administrative/secretarial occupations(SOC 4)

Associate professional and technicaloccupations (SOC 3)

Professional occupations(SOC 2)

Skilled trades occupations(SOC 5)

Sales/customer service occupations(SOC 7)

Process, plant and machine operatives(SOC 8)

Elementary occupations(SOC 9)

Managers/senior officials(SOC 1)

All occupations


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01/02 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 95% confidence interval

Rate per 100 000

Progress on work-related ill health incidence

The Revitalising Health and Safetytarget is to reduce the

incidence rate of work-related ill health by 20% between

1999/2000 and 2009/10; the pro-rata target for 2008/09 is an18% reduction.

Despite substantial improvements since the base year, progress

is probably not on track to meet this Revitalising Health and

Safetytarget.

The Departmental Strategic Objective (DSO) includes a target to

achieve sustained improvement, since 2008, in the incidence rate

of work-related ill health.

Although there was a fall in the incidence rate between 2007/08and 2008/09, this fall was not statistically significant. Hence, the

judgment is that there has been no progress towards this DSO.

The incidence rate of self-reported work-related ill health from the

Labour Force Survey fell by 17% between 2001/02 and 2008/09,

a statistically significant fall. The range of possibilities (95%

confidence interval) for this fall was 9% to 25%.

The 2008/09 incidence rates for self-reported work-related stress

and musculoskeletal disorders were both significantly lower than

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Trends in the other smaller categories of work-related ill health

show a mixed pattern. There are indications of falls in asthma

and dermatitis, and a rise in Mesothelioma whilst other categories

remain flat.

Estimated incident rate of self-reported work-related

illness by type of complaint

Type of complaint Incidence rate per 100 000 employed in the last 12 months

Central estimate 95% confidence intervallower upper

All illnesses

2001/02 2 190 2 070 2 310

2004/05 1 850 1 730 1 960

2008/09 1 810 1 690 1 940

Musculoskeletal disorders

2001/02 750 680 820

2004/05 650 580 710

2008/09 630 560 700

Stress, depression or anxiety

2001/02 890 810 960

2004/05 820 750 900

2008/09 760 680 840

Other illnesses

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Research indicates that the rise in major injuries that took place in

2003/04 resulted from a change in recording systems. Work has

been undertaken to quantify this effect and produce an adjustedtime series which is shown on the chart above.

After adjusting for the discontinuity, the rate of employee major

injury reported under RIDDOR fell by 19% between 1999/2000

and 2008/09. The unadjusted data shows a 10% fall.

Progress on fatal and major injuries

The Revitalising Health and Safetytarget is to reduce the incidence

rate of fatal and major injury by 10% between 1999/2000 and

2009/10; the pro-rata target for 2008/09 is a 9% reduction.Progress is on track to meet this Revitalising Health and Safety

target.

The Departmental Strategic Objective (DSO) includes a target to

achieve sustained improvement, since 2008, in the incidence rate

of fatal and major injuries.

The judgment is that there has been progress towards this DSO.


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The rate of fatal injury to employees has fallen between

1999/2000 and 2008/09 although most of this reduction occurred

in the earlier part of the period.

The rate of RIDDOR reported over-3-day injury which provides

supporting evidence, has fallen by around 28% since 1999/2000.Other supporting evidence from the LFS shows a statistically

significant fall of 43% in reportable injury since 1999/2000.

The range of possibilities for this fall in self reported injury (95%

confidence interval) is from 34% to 52%.

Rate of fatal and major injury to employees

Rate of reported injury (per 100 000 employees)

Year Fatal injury Major injury Fatal and Adjusted fatalmajor injury and major injury

1999/00 0.7 116.6 117.3 131.1

2000/01 0.9 110.2 111.1 124.4

2001/02 0.8 110.9 111.7 124.9

2002/03 0.7 111.1 111.8 124.82003/04 0.7 120.4 121.1 n/a

2004/05 0.7 117.9 118.6 n/a

2005/06 0.6 110.5 111.1 n/a

2006/07 0.7 108.8 109.5 n/a

2007/08 0.7 106.7 107.4 n/a

2008/09p 0.5 105.1 105.6 n/a

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Days lost per worker

Figure 14: Estimated working days lost per worker due to work-related ill healthand workplace injuries

Total Days lost due to ill health Days lost due to injury

95% confidence interval

Progress on working days lost

The Revitalising Health and Safetytarget is to reduce the number

of working days lost per worker due to work-related injury and ill

health by 30% between 200002 and 2009/10; the pro-rata targetfor 2008/09 is a 27% reduction.

The statistical judgement is that progress is probably on track to

meet the Revitalising target.

The baseline for the Revitalising target is taken as 200002,

because comparable data on working days lost, from the LFS, are

only available since 2000/01 (for injuries) and 2001/02 (for ill health).

Since 200002 working days lost per worker has shown a

statistically significant fall of 29.5% with a range of possibilities (95%

confidence interval) of 20% to 39%.

There have been statistically significant falls over the Revitalisingperiod for both injury absence and days lost resulting from work-

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Sources and definitions

The Labour Force Survey (LFS): A national survey of over 50 000

households each quarter which provides information on the UK

labour market. HSE commissions annual questions in the LFS togain a view of work-related illness and workplace injury based on

individuals perceptions. The analysis and interpretation of these data

are the sole responsibility of HSE. Further details about the LFS, and

more specifically the HSE commissioned questions, are available from

www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/lfs/technicalnote.htm.

Self-reported work-related illness (SWI): People who have

conditions which they think have been caused or made worse bytheir current or past work, as estimated from the LFS. Prevalence

estimates include long-standing as well as new cases; incidence

comprises those who first became aware of their illness in the last

12 months. HSE has carried out SWI surveys, linked to the LFS,

periodically since 1990 and annually since 2003/04.

Reports of ill health by doctors and specialist physicians: These

reports of work-related ill health are gathered in surveillance schemesrun by the The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR and

THOR-GP). Statistical tables covering patients seen by specialists are

available annually from the early 1990s for work-related respiratory

disorders and skin disease, from 1998 for musculoskeletal disorders

and from 1999 for mental ill health. THOR-GP has been fully

established for two years and data are available from 2006.

Ill health assessed for disablement benefit (IIDB): New cases of

specified prescribed diseases (with an established occupational

cause) assessed for compensation under the Industrial Injuries

Disablement Benefit scheme. IIDB statistics are available annually

from the 1980s or earlier.

Death certificates: Page 5 refers to deaths from some types of

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RIDDOR 95: The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous

Occurrences Regulations 1995, under which fatal and specified non-

fatal injuries to workers and members of the public arising from work

activity are reported by employers and others to the relevant

enforcing authority. These are HSE, local authorities and the Officeof Rail Regulation (ORR). Prior to 1 April 2006 safety on railways

was enforced by HSE, and ORR since. The RIDDOR figures include

railways data, provided by ORR, although the breakdown by

country/region on pages 1415 excludes railways.

Reported major injuries: Specified serious injuries to workers,

including most fractures, amputations and other injuries leading

to resuscitation or 24-hour admittance to hospital.

Reported over-3-day injuries: Other (non-major) injuries to workers

that lead to absence from work, or inability to do their usual job, for

over three days.

Reportable injuries from the Labour Force Survey (LFS): Injuries

to workers which meet the criteria to be reportable under RIDDOR,

as estimated from the LFS. HSE has placed a set of injury questionson the LFS in 1990 and annually since 1993. LFS injury rates are

generally presented as three-year averages to provide a more robust

series of estimates.

Level of reporting: Reported non-fatal injury rate (from RIDDOR) as

a percentage of the reportable injury rate (from the LFS).

Working days lost: Days off work due to workplace injuries and

work-related ill health, as estimated from the LFS. The figures are

expressed as full-day equivalents, to allow for variation in daily hours

worked, and are available for 2000/01 (injuries), 2001/02 (ill health),

and annually (for both injuries and ill health) from 2003/04.


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Revitalising Health and Safety targets: Targets for workplace

health and safety set by the government and the Health and Safety

Commission in 2000, to achieve specific percentage reductions in

fatal and major injuries, work-related ill health incidence and working

days lost by 2010. HSE set out its technical approach to measuringprogress against the three Revitalising targets in a Statistical Note

published in 2001. This promised an annual report containing

judgements on progress, which is published at

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Standard Industrial Classification (SIC): The system used in UK

official statistics for classifying businesses by the type of activity they

are engaged in. This has been revised several times since firstintroduced in 1948. The version used in these statistics, SIC 2003,

made minor revisions to SIC 1992.

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC): The system used in

UK official statistics for classifying workers by the type of job they are

engaged in. The version used in these statistics is SOC 2000.

Rate per 100 000: The number of injuries or cases of ill health per100 000 employees or workers, either overall or for a particular

industry or area. For reported injuries, the rates use estimates of the

number of jobs produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

For reportable injuries from the LFS, and ill-health cases from various

sources, the rates are based on LFS employment estimates.

95% confidence intervals: The range of values which we are

95% confident contains the true value, in the absence of bias. This

reflects the potential error that results from surveying a sample rather

than the entire population. A difference between two estimates is

statistically significant if there is a less than 5% chance that it is due

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Enforcement notices and offences prosecuted: The relevant

enforcing authorities are HSE, local authorities and the Office of

Rail Regulation (ORR). Prior to 1 April 2006 safety on railways was

enforced by HSE, and ORR since. The numbers of enforcement

notices issued, and offences prosecuted, are provided by the relevantenforcing authority.

Enforcement notices cover improvement, prohibition and deferred

prohibition. Offences prosecuted refer to individual breaches of health

and safety legislation; a prosecution case may include more than one

offence. In England and Wales, most prosecutions are taken by HSE,

although the Crown Prosecution Service prosecute a small number

of health and safety offences on our behalf. In Scotland, prosecutionsare taken by the Procurator Fiscal, on the basis of HSE reports.

Prosecution statistics allocated against a particular year, unless

otherwise stated, relate to the date of final hearing with a known

outcome. They exclude those cases not completed, for example

adjourned. These statistics do not meet all the criteria to be described

as National Statistics. In particular, responsibility for the release

arrangements does not rest with HSE statisticians.

p: Provisional.

n/a: Not available


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HSE Health & Safety Statistics 2008--09