The Health and Safety Executive has just published statistics concerning industrial accidents and sick leaves, which declined in 2005-2006. These results, coming in the middle of a 10-year plan aiming at having danger at work dropping, are deemed promising. (Ref. 061114)
Illnesses. two million people are currently affected with illnesses caused or made worse by their job, present or past. This year, 523,000 new cases have been declared. Three quarters of these illnesses are musculoskeletal problems – essentially members and the back – and also stress, depression and anxiety. Deaths caused by an asbestos cancer, the mesothelioma, rose up to 1969, as opposed to 153 in 1968. Approximations count on a death peak between 2011 and 2015, up to 2050 a year. The HSE al
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