- Health and Safety failures cost Britain up to £18 billion each year
- 400 people every year are still killed in accidents caused by work activities
- Around 25 million working days are lost every year as a result of work related accidents and ill health
- Around 2 million people - 5% of the population - suffer from ill health caused by work
- Over a million workers get injured every year
- Around half a million people suffer from stress caused by their work
- The most common forms of work related accidents are back problems which causes 10 million working days to be lost each year
- In 1998/99 there were almost 29,000 major injuries to workers
- In the same period another 131,000 workers had to take more than 3 days off work as a result of a work related injury
- More than 24,000 members of the public were injured as a result of a work activity
- Every year around 3000 people die as a result of exposure to asbestos
- Falls from a height are the most common cause of death to employees
- Workers in small manufacturing firms are more than twice as likely to be killed than workers in larger firms in the same sector
- Self employed people are twice as likely to be killed at work as employees
- Workplaces with safety representatives have half the accident rate of workplaces of workplaces who don't have such representatives
- The fatal injury rate for employees in Great Britain is a quarter of what is was in 1971
- Great Britain has a lower rate of deaths to workers than America or any other European country
- The rate of deaths per 100,000 workers is 3.7% in Germany, 4.3% in France and 1.7% in Great Britain
- The cost of work related accidents and ill health to employers is £140 - £300 for each worker employed
- The cost of work related accidents and illnesses is estimated at between £3.5 billion and £7.3 billion a year
- Over £180 million could be saved in work related accidents in the construction industry alone
- Around 1 in 5 workers have been physically attacked or threatened by a member of the public
- Some insurers offer discounts of up to 20% if employers can demonstrate good health and safety arrangements
- Over 25,000 people are forced to give up work every year as a result of work related accidents and ill health
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