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Drop in work accident claims in the UK
In the previous three years there have been over 100 new statues and regulations imposed on businesses. The regulations all directly affect the health and safety risks to staff and are designed to reduce the amount of work accidents and therefore reduce the likelihood of personal injury claims being brought against companies.
Since 1998 the number of personal injury cases in the county courts (small claims) has fallen from 7660 to 5610. There is also a significant drop in cases in the high courts with cases falling from 1754 to 749. The number of employment tribunals has also dropped from 130,408 in 2001 to 86,181 in 2005.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authority safety prosecutions are also static and the rate of injuries to employees in relation to the number of people employed is also dropping. In 1995, 567.2 per 100k employees were injured and in 2004, 508.4 were reported as having sustained a personal injury causing over 3 days of absence.
Work related accidents are extremely common in the UK but the situation is improving in some industries. In particular accidents have dropped in construction where there is a high risk to workers. The Health and Safety Statistics 2004/05 report shows the rate of reported fatal and major injuries in construction between 1999/2000 and 2004/05 has reduced by around 24%. When comparing rates of over-3-day injury, there has been a reduction of around 15% across all industries between 1999/2000 and 2004/05. In construction the rate has dropped by 35%.
