Industrial Health and Safety
(asked on 18th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many reports in relation to the safety of workplaces were received by the HSE in (a) the UK, (b) England (c) the North East and (d) Wansbeck constituency in each month in 2020.
The tables below provide numbers of all reports i.e. reports of incidents under the Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDORs) and reports of workplace concerns received this year. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the regulator for Great Britain (GB) only and there is a separate regulator in Northern Ireland. HSE is unable to analyse data at constituency level, so data for Wansbeck is not provided.
1) RIDDOR Reports
| HSE | Local Authorities | ONR | ||||||
Month reported (2020) | GB | England | NE | GB | England | NE | GB | England | NE |
January | 6016 | 5082 | 243 | 2776 | 2442 | 92 | 7 | 5 | - |
February | 6072 | 5134 | 278 | 2639 | 2292 | 99 | 7 | 5 | - |
March | 5196 | 4351 | 235 | 2185 | 1941 | 69 | 7 | 6 | - |
April | 4334 | 3692 | 191 | 1308 | 1217 | 44 | 2 | 2 | - |
1st – 18th May | 3682 | 3109 | 196 | 1295 | 1174 | 35 | 1 | - | - |
Grand Total | 25300 | 21368 | 1143 | 10203 | 9066 | 339 | 24 | 18 | - |
2) Workplace Concerns
Month reported (2020) | GB | England* | Concerns received for Counties: ‘Durham / Northumberland / Tyne & Wear / Cleveland’* |
January | 2396 | 2084 | 62 |
February | 2494 | 2178 | 74 |
March | 4584 | 3968 | 163 |
April | 3809 | 3313 | 180 |
1st – 18th May | 2118 | 1845 | 94 |
Grand Total | 15400 | 13388 | 573 |
*Country and County are given by the notifier. 2 records in the same dataset had no ‘Country’ and 699 records in the same dataset had no ‘County’.
RIDDOR puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses).
Figures represent all RIDDOR types of notifications made each day, as received in a HSE-managed system. These are as reported, no assessment has been made whether individual reports are reportable under RIDDOR, as some reports may not meet the reporting criteria. Reports relate to incidents occurring within Great Britain, excluding any made directly to the Office of Rail and Road about railways-related reports.
The RIDDOR reporting system is managed by HSE, so includes reports made which are enforced by others who access the system, namely local authorities (LA), and a small number assigned to the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).