{"id":255774,"date":"2025-07-11T09:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255774\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:03:15","slug":"how-dangerous-are-uk-workplaces-hse-has-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255774\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dangerous Are UK Workplaces? HSE Has Data &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hse-uk-safety-in-workplaces-e1731660634885.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hse uk safety in workplaces\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\">The latest data from the HSE shows fatal accident levels in the UK;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\">Latest annual figures show 124 workers were killed in work-related incidents in Great Britain. A decrease of fourteen from the previous 12-month period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7\">The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today, Wednesday 2 July, published its latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/statistics\/fatals-overview.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual fatality statistics<\/a>, covering the period from April 2024 to March 2025. The number of deaths remain broadly in line with pre-pandemic levels, and compares to 223 twenty years ago (2004\/05) and 495 in 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">The industries with the highest number of deaths were construction (35) and agriculture, forestry and fishing (23). Of all main industry sectors, agriculture, forestry and fishing continues to have the highest rate of fatal injury per 100,000 workers followed by waste and recycling. The most common cause of fatal injuries continues to be falls from a height (35), representing over a quarter of worker deaths in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\">A further 92 people who were not at work were killed in work-related incidents in 2024\/25. This refers to members of the public who were in a workplace but were not working themselves. HSE\u2019s Chief Executive Sarah Albon said: \u201cGreat Britain is one of the safest places in the world to work, but we must remember each of these deaths represents a tragedy for families, friends and communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-12\">\u201cDespite the stability in numbers, we cannot accept that fatal accidents are an inevitable part of working life. We are encouraged by the long-term trend but urge against complacency \u00a0on workplace safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-13\">\u201cOur practical and proportionate guidance is available for free on our website, and further support is available if needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-14\">The figures relate to work-related accidents and do not include deaths arising from occupational diseases or diseases arising from certain occupational exposures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\">The HSE has also published the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/statistics\/assets\/docs\/mesothelioma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual figures for mesothelioma\u00a0(PDF)\u00a0<\/a>, a cancer caused by past exposure to asbestos. The figures show that 2,218 people died from the disease in 2023, representing a fall of 62 compared with 2022 and substantially lower than the average of 2,508 deaths per year over the ten-year period 2011-2020. Current mesothelioma deaths reflect exposure to asbestos that often occurred before the 1980s and annual deaths are expected to continue declining during the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest data from the HSE shows fatal accident levels in the UK; Latest annual figures show 124&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,98287,393,4884,21110,1144,712,16,15,1764,9347],"class_list":{"0":"post-255774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-data-fatal-accidents","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-hse","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales","20":"tag-workplace"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114833798894747820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}