The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) say that the latest annual statistics for 2017/18 show that too many workers are still being injured or made ill by their work. Despite Britain continuing to be one of the safest places to work, key figures show that in 2017/18 there were: 1.4 million working people suffering from a work-related illness; 144 workers were killed at work; 555,000 injuries occurred at work according to the Labour Force Survey; 30.7 million working days were lost due to work-related illness and workplace injury; and, £15 billion is the estimated cost of injuries and ill health from current working conditions.

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