# H&S Enforcement and Injury Index

> The H&S Enforcement and Injury Index carries 10 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by jurisdiction run from 3.10 to 41 percent, read 12 October 2026.

Asbestos Survey Cost · https://asbestossurveycost.co.uk/datasets/hs-enforcement-and-injury-index/ · computed 2026-10-19

**Range by jurisdiction:** 3.1 to 41 % (range 3.1 to 41 %; 6 published figures; 2 of 8 sources read publish one).

2 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

## By jurisdiction and industry

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction United States | 3.55 % | 3.55 to 3.55 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction Australia | 14.95 % | 14.95 to 14.95 % | 1 |
| industry Transport, postal and warehousing | 27 % | 27 to 27 % | 1 |
| industry Construction | 18 % | 18 to 18 % | 1 |
| industry Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 17 % | 17 to 17 % | 1 |
| industry Administrative and support services | 72 % | 72 to 72 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 72 % | Administrative and support services | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 41 % | Australia | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 27 % | Transport, postal and warehousing | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 18 % | Construction | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 17 % | Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 15 % | Australia | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 14.9 % | Australia | 2026-10-12 |
| [US Bureau of Labor Statistics: injuries, illnesses and fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/) | 4 % | United States | 2026-10-12 |
| [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) | 3.5 % | Australia | 2026-10-12 |
| [US Bureau of Labor Statistics: injuries, illnesses and fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/) | 3.1 % | United States | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (10)

- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "The number of fatalities in the Administrative and support services industry in 2025 (10 fatalities) was 72% higher than the 5-year average for this industry (5.8 fatalities), and the number of fatalities in the Electricity, gas, water and waste services industry in 2025 (7 fatalities) was 35% higher than the 5-year average for this industry (5.2 fatalities)."
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Vehicle incidents remained the leading cause of injury fatalities, accounting for 41% (92 fatalities), followed by Falls from a height (13% or 28 fatalities) and Being hit by falling objects (9% or 21 fatalities)."
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Transport, postal and warehousing (27%; 61 fatalities)"
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Construction (18%; 41 fatalities), and"
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Agriculture, forestry and fishing (17%; 38 fatalities)."
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Over the longer term, the fatality rate has decreased by 15%, falling from 1.8 fatalities per 100,000 workers in 2015 to 1.5 in 2025."
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Over the 10-years to 2024-25p the number of serious claims has increased by 40,600 (or 38.1%) to stand at 147,200, however, accounting for changes in the number of hours worked over time, the serious claims frequency rate has increased by only 0.9 claims per million hours worked (or 14.9%) over the same period to stand at 6.7."
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics: injuries, illnesses and fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/), read 2026-10-12: "Total of 5,070 fatal work injuries in 2024, down 4.0% from 2023"
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release), read 2026-10-12: "Australia’s current work-related injury rate of 3.5% is roughly one-third of the global rate of 12.1%2 (that is, the proportion of people who experienced a work‑related injury or illness in the previous 12 months)."
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics: injuries, illnesses and fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/), read 2026-10-12: "Employers report 2.5 million injury and illness cases in 2024, down 3.1% from 2023"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [HSE health and safety statistics: key figures for Great Britain](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overview.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE statistics: index of releases](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE statistics: data tables](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE register of convictions and notices (about the registers)](https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/convictions.htm), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [OSHA most frequently cited standards](https://www.osha.gov/top10citedstandards), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Safe Work Australia: work-related fatalities data](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/our-datasets/work-related-fatalities-data), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 8 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 6 figures, never sentences; 108 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per industry per year: enforcement notices served, prosecutions concluded, the regulation most cited, and the injury and ill-health rates from the national statistics release, with the fine distribution where the register publishes it; the derivation nobody publishes is the JOIN - enforcement volume per REGULATION mapped onto the statutory-assessment table, so a hazard row carries how often failing it is actually enforced, and the per-industry rate that turns 'you must assess' into 'here is what happens when you do not'; changed-since on every statistical release

## Sources

- [HSE health and safety statistics: key figures for Great Britain](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overview.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE statistics: index of releases](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE statistics: data tables](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE register of convictions and notices (about the registers)](https://www.hse.gov.uk/enforce/convictions.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE public register of enforcement notices](https://resources.hse.gov.uk/notices/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE public register of convictions](https://resources.hse.gov.uk/convictions/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [OSHA most frequently cited standards](https://www.osha.gov/top10citedstandards) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics: injuries, illnesses and fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Safe Work Australia: work-related fatalities data](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/our-datasets/work-related-fatalities-data) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Safe Work Australia: key WHS statistics, latest release](https://data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/insights/key-whs-statistics-australia/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [hse.gov.uk](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The H&S Enforcement and Injury Index carries 10 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages; the 6 published figures given by jurisdiction run from 3.10 to 41 percent, read 12 October 2026.
- 2 of the 8 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, jurisdiction United States: median 3.55 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, jurisdiction Australia: median 14.95 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, industry Transport, postal and warehousing: median 27 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, industry Construction: median 18 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, industry Agriculture, forestry and fishing: median 17 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- H&S Enforcement and Injury Index, industry Administrative and support services: median 72 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.

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