Despite the increase in road traffic, travel is getting safer. Both the number of people killed and accident rates are declining, although the risk of being killed or seriously injured varies according to the mode of transport used. Motorcycles users have...
The safety levels of most major forms of transport are much improved over the levels of the early 1980s, and improvements in most areas have continued since 1993. Despite improvements in road safety, other forms of transport, such as rail, air and sea con...
The condition of the local environment is often central to people’s perception of their quality of life. In November 2001, the ONS Omnibus Survey found that most adults in Great Britain thought the condition of elements of their local environment, such as...
Despite improvements in road safety in recent years, other forms of transport such as rail, air and sea have much lower death rates from accidents, and it is also much safer to use public transport than private. Passenger death rates for travel by car, bi...
Between 1979 and 1999 the overall death rate from road accidents for men and women halved. Between 1979 and 1993 the death rate for men declined more quickly than those for women, after which the rate for men remained relatively stable. The initial declin...
This report (containing SIC code 26120) is an update of statistics previously published in report PRA25.
Examples of products covered:-
Silvered glass;
Worked/cut-to-size mirrors;
Optical-processed flat glass (bent, edge-worked, engraved, drilled, ena...
For over 150 years, data on occupational mortality have been available in the Registrar General's Decennial Supplements. Occupational Mortality in England and Wales, 1991-2000, a joint publication of the Office for National Statistics and the Health and S...
The Office for National Statistics carries out the Omnibus Survey; a multi-purpose survey based on interviews with a sample of about 1,900 adults per survey month with one adult selected from each household. The Survey is a vehicle providing quick results...
Brings together under one cover a wide range of statistics that are currently available on the construction industry. It gives a broad perspective of statistical trends in the construction industry in Great Britain through the last decade together with so...
This report (containing SIC code 25240) is an update of statistics previously published in report PRA24.
Examples of products covered:-
Plastic articles of apparel and clothing accessories including gloves, raincoats, aprons, belts and babies' bibs;
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Statistics relating to enforcement action taken by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authorities for breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and associated legislation.
The Forest Service is an Agency of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and compiles statistics for forestry in Northern Ireland.
Data on state forestry covers land acquisition/disposal, land use, buildings, agricultural lettings and lea...
The Health and Safety Executive use employment data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to produce rates of workplace injury for employees and the self-employed.
The Health and Safety Executive commissions questions on accidents and ill-health in the Labour Force Survey. The results give a self-reported view on work-related accidents and illness.
In a March to May 1990 `trailer' to the spring Labour Force Surve...
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