The HSE has published its latest annual report on its own health and safety performance for the year 2010/11. The report finds that incidents resulting in injury and cases of work related ill health have remained fairly static in comparison with previous report years but there has been an increase in the number of near-miss reports.

HSE says it takes this increase as “a welcome sign of increased awareness amongst staff leading to a richer source of information about safety performance".

All in all a total of 243 incidents were reported, including nine RIDDOR reports.

The HSE met its targets on four Key Performance Indicators which were set in the corporate plan, including having fewer than 20 slip-and-trip related injuries and having fewer than 15 work-related road traffic injuries. However, it did not meet other targets such as having fewer than 6.2 days of sickness absence per staff member for the year and having fewer than 70 incidents leading to injury.

HSE Chair Judith Hackitt said key activities for the coming year would include streamlining the HSE’s health and safety management structure, appointing a new TU vice chair and reviewing and revising health and safety policies.

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