Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and safety statistics

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the government's response has impacted health and safety statistics published by HSE. The impact has varied across data sources and across the years, including disruption or changes to some data collection as well as introducing challenges in assessing change over time due to discontinuities in the data. While every endeavour has been made during the pandemic to collect and update data on as complete and comparable basis as possible, important differences with earlier years' data remain. These reports consider the impacts of the pandemic on health and safety statistics and the approaches taken to ensure that data quality is maintained in each of the years from 2019/20.

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  1. Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/index.htm
  2. Statistics A - Zhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/a-z.htm
  3. Index of data tableshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/tables/index.htm
  4. Ill healthhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/causdis/index.htm
  5. Overview - COVID-19https://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/coronavirus/index.htm
  6. Management informationhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/coronavirus/management-information.htm
  7. Overview - Fatal injurieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/fatals.htm
  8. Latest quarterly fatal injury figureshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/fatalquarterly.htm
  9. Overview - Non-fatal injuryhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/causinj/index.htm
  10. Violence at workhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/causinj/violence/index.htm
  11. Costs to Britainhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/cost.htm
  12. Industrieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/industry/index.htm
  13. Countries and regions of Britainhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/regions/index.htm
  14. Comparisons with other countrieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/european/index.htm
  15. Historical picturehttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/history/index.htm
  16. Overview - About HSE Statisticshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about.htm
  17. Data sourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/sources.htm
  18. Overview - National statistics policieshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/index.htm
  19. Revisionshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/revisions/index.htm
  20. Confidentiality policyhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/confidentiality.htm
  21. Overview - User engagementhttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/engagement/index.htm
  22. Reports from previous user consultationshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/engagement/previous-consultations.htm
  23. Quality guidelineshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/quality-guidelines.htm
  24. Statement of administrative sourceshttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/about/administrative-sources.htm
  25. Research and ad hoc analysishttps://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/resources.htm
  26. Potential impact of COVID-19 on HSE's main statistical sources in 2019/20https://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/assets/docs/covid19-impact19-20.pdf
  27. The Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the interpretation of Health and Safety Statistics 2020/21 https://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/assets/docs/covid19-impact20-21.pdf
  28. The Impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the interpretation of Health and Safety Statistics 2021/22 https://www.hse.gov.uk/STATISTICS/assets/docs/covid19-impact21-22.pdf

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Updated 2025-02-18