Lesson 4: Health & Safety Data Sources & Reporting Systems
HSE collects data from various sources
- Labour force survey
- THOR (The Health and Occupational Reporting Network)
- RIDDOR
- Death certificates (e.g. mesothelioma due to asbestos)
Examples of data types provided by HSE reports
- Rate of ill health for different groups of workers
- Estimated death due to work exposure
- Companies prosecuted for breaches of health and safety law
Other voluntary reporting services of work related ill health by specialist doctors
- SWORD (Surveillance of work related and occupational respiratory disease)- Hospital consultants specialising in respiratory disease
- EPIDERM- skin surveillance by consultant dermatologists
- MOSS- MSK by consultant rheumatologists
- SOSMI- Stress & mental illness by consultant psychiatrists
- OPRA- occupational physicians reporting activity
