Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many covid-19 related workplace concerns have been reported to the Health and Safety Executive (a) by phone and (b) online by (i) members of the public and (ii) employees in each month since March 2020.
(1) Covid-19 related concerns reported online
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has received a total of 14817 workplace concerns reported via its online concerns reporting process since March 2020 to 27th October 2020. The notifier gave their status as ‘employee’ in 5263 cases, and as ‘member of the public’ in 4256 cases.
Table 1 shows the number of covid-19 related workplace concerns raised with HSE since March 20 to 27th October 2020, identifying the numbers reported by employees and members of the public:
| Employee | Member of the Public | Other* | Total |
Mar | 787 | 324 | 676 | 1787 |
Apr | 938 | 729 | 1106 | 2773 |
May | 735 | 558 | 732 | 2025 |
Jun | 549 | 394 | 504 | 1447 |
Jul | 525 | 683 | 496 | 1704 |
Aug | 367 | 494 | 415 | 1276 |
Sep | 647 | 588 | 653 | 1888 |
1st – 27th Oct | 715 | 486 | 716 | 1917 |
Total | 5263 | 4256 | 5298 | 14817 |
(2) Covid-19 related telephone enquiries
HSE has received a total of 22371 covid-19 related telephone enquiries since March 2020 to 27th October 2020.
Table 2 shows the number of telephone enquiries by month since March 2020 to 27th October 2020.
| Total |
Mar | 1793 |
Apr | 480 |
May | 3315 |
Jun | 4838 |
Jul | 3863 |
Aug | 2313 |
Sep | 3130 |
1st – 27th Oct | 2639 |
Total | 22371 |
Notes
i. Table 2 figures include other covid-19 related enquires. A breakdown of specific covid-19 concerns by telephone and the breakdown of the source of the call (employee, member of the public or other) is not possible to obtain.
ii. All figures were extracted from HSE’s live database and provide the picture as at 27th October 2020.