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Health & Safety in the UK Today HSE’s 2004/05 statistics showed that, of the 35 million working days lost each year to injury and ill health at work, ill health accounted for 28 million (80%). Of the days lost to ill health, work-related stress (12.8m days) and musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs) (11.6m days) account for the large majority. These figures are a key reason why the HSE are currently placing so much emphasis on health, and, why workplaces must give high priority to staff health and wellbeing. Taking action to prevent ill health and promote good health makes sound business sense There is no doubt that having healthy, well motivated employees, contributes enormously to the overall success of an organisation. The benefits include:
Save Thousands by putting the H back into H & S Creating healthy workplaces and protecting both the health and wellbeing of employees really does make business sense. Evaluation studies have shown that workplace health & wellbeing initiatives lead to between a 12 and 36% reduction in sickness absence. This has led to a saving of 34% in absenteeism costs, concluding that for every pound spent on promoting health in the workplace, a £12.00 saving is made.
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