Industrial Health and Safety: Coronavirus

(asked on 23rd October 2020) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 2nd November 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.

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