Industrial Health and Safety: Pregnancy
(asked on 27th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will require the Health and Safety Executive to report annually on the number of (a) requests for advice from (i) workers and (ii) employers on health and safety for new and expectant mothers and (b) cases in which enforcement action was taken and the type of enforcement action carried out.
The Health and Safety Executive does not routinely publish figures of the number or breakdown of requests for advice received and does not intend to do so. Details of all enforcement action are available on HSE’s website.
However, over the last five financial years and current year to date, the number of concerns reported to HSE related to the terms ‘pregnant’, ‘pregnancy’ and ‘new mother’ are:
Financial Year | Pregnancy/New mother Related | Total Concerns Received | % of total |
16/17 | 167 | 22,497 | 0.74% |
17/18 | 156 | 26,507 | 0.59% |
18/19 | 146 | 29,476 | 0.50% |
19/20 | 173 | 32,490 | 0.53% |
20/21 | 282 | 46,103 | 0.61% |
21/YTD | 104 | 19,904 | 0.52% |
There has been no enforcement action taken over this period related to the same terms.