HSE Statistics - Key figures for 2006/07

Ill health

• 2.2 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.
• 646 000 of these were new cases in the last 12 months.
• 2037 people died of mesothelioma (2005), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases.

Injuries

• 241 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
• 141 350 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 535.1 per 100 000 employees.
• 274 000 reportable injuries occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 1000 per 100 000 workers.

Working days lost

• 36 million days were lost overall (1.5 days per worker), 30 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.