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Since you arrived
0UK workers injured at work
0New cases of work-related mental ill‑health
£0Cost to Britain — workplace injury & ill‑health

Indicative only — pro-rated from HSE annual figures. How we calculate this.

HSE Summary Statistics 2025 (LFS 2024/25) · HSE Costs to Britain 2021/22 ↗

Real workplaces, real hazards

Real numbers, from real workplaces, across Britain.

Royal Mail

2,197

dog attacks on postal workers in a single year. Same routes, same workers, same dogs.

Royal Mail Group · Dog Awareness Week 2025

NHS

14.4%

of NHS staff experienced physical violence from patients or the public in the last twelve months.

NHS Staff Survey 2025

Construction

35

workers fatally injured on UK construction sites (2024/25, provisional). Twenty-seven of those, falls from height.

HSE Fatal Injuries in Great Britain 2024/25 (provisional)

Agriculture

23

workers killed in UK agriculture (2024/25, provisional). The highest fatal injury rate of any sector, year after year.

HSE Fatal Injuries in Great Britain 2024/25 (provisional)

Mental Health

22.1m

UK working days lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in a single year. The single biggest cause of lost work.

HSE Summary Statistics 2025 (LFS 2024/25)

Asbestos

~5,000

UK deaths a year still attributed to asbestos exposure — mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis combined. The cost from a hazard we knew about in 1898.

HSE Asbestos-related Disease Statistics 2025

Lung disease

11,000

deaths a year in Britain from work-related lung disease — around 80 times the annual fatal-injury figure. Dust, fume and vapour controls today decide tomorrow’s toll.

HSE · Occupational Lung Disease Statistics 2025

Construction cancer

3,500

work-related cancer deaths every year linked to construction in Britain. Silica, diesel exhaust and welding fume — still happening, still preventable.

BOHS · Breathe Freely in Construction

Sprinklers

99%

of UK fire incidents in sprinklered buildings (across nearly 3,000 cases) were controlled or extinguished by the sprinklers. Cost — or control?

BAFSA / Optimal Economics · UK Sprinkler Effectiveness 2018-2024

Violence at work

358,000

workers in Great Britain experienced violence at work in a single year — threats and physical assault, mostly by members of the public.

HSE Annual Statistics 2024/25 (Crime Survey)

Slips, trips & falls

31%

of all non-fatal workplace injuries in Britain are slips, trips and falls on the same level. The single biggest cause of injury at work, year after year.

HSE Kind of Accident 2024/25

Most workplace incidents aren’t caused by the rare or the unfamiliar. They’re the obvious thing someone left for another day, or quietly assumed somebody else was on top of. Fixed early, most of these cost almost nothing — a conversation, a tweak to how the work is set up, a line in a method statement somebody actually reads. When something does go wrong, the cost is almost always bigger than what it would have taken to act the week before.

HSE · Costs to Britain

By proactive, we mean three real things. Looking at the work before something happens, not after. Acting on the small things this week, rather than the bigger ones in six months. Asking the questions quietly, before they have to be asked loudly by someone else.

That is the work we do best — with people who want to get ahead of it. And when something does happen — because sometimes it will — the honest learning afterwards is what stops it happening twice. That work matters too. It is rarely comfortable, and it is always worth doing properly.

HSE · Managing for H&S

If you want to see exactly what the law asks of you — the statutory duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, set out in plain English, without the textbook — we have laid them out here: What the law says.. It is a quiet starting point that’s easy to overlook — and the one that makes everything else easier.

HSWA 1974 · legislation.gov.uk

And while we are here. Safety can feel like the part of work you have to do, rather than the part you want to. More honestly, it’s what keeps you and the people around you healthy — and walking out at the end of the day. The paperwork is the trail it leaves behind. It is not the work.

And safety isn’t somebody else’s job either — it belongs to every person in the work, from the floor to the board. The workplaces that get it right hold the responsibility quietly, in common — and the conversations that make it real happen face to face, not by ping.

Read the longer version of our thinking →

Safety isn’t how we’ve always done it. It’s the best of what we learned — taken forward, adapted, every day, to the work in front of us.
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Short pieces from real sites.

Two and three minutes each. What we noticed on site, what changed, what we would do differently next time. No slides, no script.

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Worth a few more minutes.

For directors

Five minutes if you sit on the board.

Section 37 personal liability, what board engagement looks like, and the commercial case — short.

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The law

The duties, in plain English.

HSWA, MHSWR and the regulations beneath them — set out without the textbook.

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About us

How we think about the work.

Where we work, where we refer out, and the three things that drive what we do.

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The choice

Safe by choice has to start with a choice.

Twenty minutes. An honest conversation about your people, your risks, the work you are carrying. No pitch. No follow-up sequence. By the end we will both know whether there is something we can help with — and either way, you leave with at least one useful thing.

Because the workplace people walk into tomorrow is the one we decide on today.

Since you arrived
0UK workers injured at work
0New cases of work-related mental ill-health
£0Cost to Britain — workplace injury & ill-health

Indicative only — pro-rated from HSE annual figures (rate × your seconds on page). How we calculate this

HSE Summary Statistics 2025 (LFS 2024/25) · HSE Costs to Britain 2021/22 ↗