Lesson 3: Occupational Health Statistics & Reporting (HSE 2022/2023)
HSE Statistics 2022/2023
- Biggest causes of new and long-standing illness from the HSE website
- Mental health: stress
- MSK: 27%
- Other: 24%
- Fatal injuries are most likely to occur in construction, followed by agriculture
- 1.8 million workers suffering from work-related ill health
- 0.9 million due to mental health
- 0.5 million due to MSK
- The current rate of self-reported ill health is higher than in 2018/2019
- Industries with higher than average rates of work-related stress: human health/social work, public sector and education
- The main work factors causing depression and anxiety were workload pressures (tight deadlines and too much responsibility) and lack of managerial support
- Industries with higher than average MSK: Admin and support service activities followed by construction
- Industries with higher than average MSK: Admin and support service activities followed by construction
- Occupational lung disease:
- COPD 34%
- Non asbestos-related lung cancer 24%
- Asbestos-related lung cancer 20%
- Mesothelioma 20% (expected to decline in next decade)
- Commonest causes of MSK new and longstanding
- Back pain 41%
- Lower limb 17%
- Upper limb and neck 41%
- Commonest non fatal injuries: slips, trips and falls
- £20.7 billion is cost of new workplace injury and ill health excluding latency illness such as cancer
- Review to see if there are any updated statistics on HSE website as this is usually updated annually