New HSE Annual Statistics

According to provisional figures in the HSE's latest Health & Safety Statistics Annual Report:

1.2 million people who worked in the previous 12 months suffered from a work-related illness in 2013/14 - a slight increase from 1.07 million in 2011/12 133 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2013/14, an average rate of 0.44 deaths per 100,000 workers - a decrease from an average rate of 0.56 per 100,000 workers over the previous five years Construction was the industrial sector with the highest rate of fatal injuries: 42 deaths in 2013/14, a rate of 8.77 per 100,000 workers - a decrease from the five-year average rate of 9.89 28.2 million working days were lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury in 2013/14 - a slight increase from 27 million in 2011/12 551 cases were prosecuted by the HSE in England and Wales in 2013/14 - a decrease of 5% from the year 2012/13 88 cases were prosecuted by local authorities in England and Wales in 2013/14, a decrease of 16% from the year 2012/13 13,790 enforcement notices were issued by the HSE and local authorities in 2013/14 - an increase of 2% from the previous year. Although the number of notices issued by the HSE rose 15% from the previous year, notices issued by local authorities...