The HSE has recently published its annual workplace health and safety statistics 2025 for Great Britain. Looking at these statistics helps to highlight the key areas and sectors that require attention and improvement in the new year.
New and long-standing cases of work-related ill health
Stress, depression or anxiety continue to be the leading cause of work-related ill health, and have increased by 6% compared to last year. Musculoskeletal disorders have decreased by 5%.
The total number of workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety (new or long-standing) has increased by almost 25% to 964,000 workers. In addition, the number of new workers suffering from work-related stress, depression or anxiety has also increased by over 36%, to 409,000.
22.1 million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2024/2025. Unfortunately, this was a whopping 5.7 million more days compared to 2023/2024.
The three sectors that suffered from higher-than-average rates of work-related stress, depression or anxiety were:
This is the same as the previous year.
Sadly, 124 workers were killed in work-related accidents in 2024/2025. Positively, this is over a 10% decrease from the previous year. However, this figure still suggests that more can be done to improve workplace safety.
Whilst the number of workers sustaining a non-fatal injury has increased, the number of injuries reported by employees under RIDDOR has decreased. Following on similarly from last year, which saw an increase of 400,000 working days (4.1 million in total) lost due to non-fatal workplace injuries, this year that total has increased by an additional 300,000 working days (4.4 million in total). 82% of those injuries this year had up to 7 days of absence, and 18% of them had over 7 days of absence.
The most common non-fatal accidents were:
These rankings are the same as last year, with only 1% percentage change in 2 accident figures.
Work-related ill health
The industries with the highest work-related ill health were:
Workplace non-fatal injury
The industries with the highest workplace non-fatal injuries were:
All of these industries featured on the highest workplace non-fatal injuries list last year.
These figures have been taken from the HSE’s ‘Health and safety at work – Summary statistics for Great Britain 2025’ booklet.
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