Principal People is the leading health, safety and environment recruitment agency offering health ,safety jobs, vacancies and training for clients and candidates in a wide range of industry areas. Over the coming months we will be developing this page to bring you the latest news and information. Not just about health Safety issues, but also how new legislation can affect jobs and vacancies and also day to day implications.

Latest HSE News For the UK

 

Some useful stats from the Health and Safety Executive:

Latest key figures

Fatal Injuries
There were 235 fatal injuries to workers in 2003/04, a rate of 0.81 per hundred thousand workers.

Other reported injuries
In 2003/04, employers reported 159 809 other injuries, a rate of 629.1 per hundred thousand employees.

Ill health
In 2003/04 an estimated 2.2 million people in Great Britain were suffering from an illness which they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work.

Working days lost
In 2003-04 an estimated 39 million working days were lost overall, 30 million due to work-related ill health and 9 million due to workplace injury.