HSE workplace fatality statistics: Have we reached a dangerous safety plateau?

HSE’s fatal injury statistics for 2022 to 2023 suggest that workplaces are no safer than in 2016, says Nick Wilson, Director of Health and Safety at WorkNest
According to the most recent data from the HSE a total of 135 workers tragically lost their lives as a result of work-related accidents between April 2022 and March 2023.
This highlights a disheartening stagnation in the ongoing efforts to reduce work-related fatalities in the UK and raises the question – has workplace health an