§ Mr. Woodallasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give (a) the number of deaths, (b) the number of serious injuries and (c) the number of those employed in the construction industry for the years 1979 to 1984, inclusive.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe information for incidents reported to the Health and Safety Executive for 1979–83 is as follows. Information for 1984 is not yet available.
Construction industry: Great Britain—1979–83 1979 1980 1981 1982 *1983 Deaths to employees 128 134 106 100 118 Deaths to non-employees† 21 31 23 31 31 Total deaths 149 165 129 131 149 Major injuries to employees n/a n/a 1,690 1,950 2,151 Major injuries to non-employees n/a n/a 76 84 121 Total major injuries‡ n/a n/a 1,766 2,034 2,272 Employees (thousands) 1,251.2 1,219.6 1,094.8 1,005.2 1,039.5 * Provisional. † Before 1981, deaths to non-employees were reported on a voluntary basis only and are therefore not directly comparable with figures for 1981 to 1983 which are based on reports resulting from a specific requirement under the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (NADOR) 1980. ‡ Numbers of major injuries as defined in NADOR were not collected before 1981. n/a=Not available.