§ Mr. Cryerasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the number of fatal accidents at work in manufacturing industry
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 Great Britain* … … … 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.04 West Germany† … … … 0.18 0.19 0.18 0.17 0.16 Italy† … … … 0.11 0.09 0.08 0.08 n.a. France‡ … … … 0.12 0.12 0.13 n.a. n.a. NOTES: * Rates per 1,000 persons employed—based on reported accidents † Rates per 1,000 man years of 300 days each—based on compensated accidents ‡ Rates per 1,000 persons employed—based on compensated accidents In an international comparison of accident frequency and incidence rates full account must be taken of the effect on the figures of difference in the economic
196Wduring 1975 in this country and comparable figures for West Germany, Italy and France.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerThe following table gives the fatal annual incidence rates for all manufacturing industries.
scope of the data and of tack of uniformity in definitional usage of computational and estimating methods.