Last year, 2.2 million people would have suffered from work-related diseases and 241 employees were the victims of deadly accidents. The HSE - Health and Safety Executive - recently published the statistics for 2006/2007 in terms of health and safety in companies and evaluates the results of the government's policy in this matter. In the end, a lot remains to be done. (Ref. 070926)
Official figures concerning health and safety at work for the year that just passed have been revealed by the Health and Safety Executive. Here are the main statistics:
- Health: 2.2 million people suffered from a disease which, according to the interested parties, worsened or was caused by their current or former job. 646.000 of them are new cases which occurred during the past twelve months. 2.037 people were killed by mesothelioma in 2005 (cancer caused by exposure to asbestos) and thousands o
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