Occupational health: two million people suffering from a work-related illness

The latest Occupational Health Statistics Bulletin, produced by the HSE, reports that an estimated two million people are suffering from an illness that they believed is caused, or made worse, by their current or past work.

Overall, in 2004/05 an estimated two million people were suffering from an illness which they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work; 576 thousand of these first became aware of their illness in the past 12 months.

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