Highways to a Danger Zone ! 

 The UK’s most dangerous jobs 

In the UK alone, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported 1.6 million work-related ill health cases in 2020, and 38.8 million working days lost due to work-related ill health and non-fatal workplace injuries.

The top 5 are:

1) Commercial fishing

✴ Fishermen are six times more likely to die than workers in other sectors

2) Waste and recycling

✴ Around 5000 workers in the industry suffer from ill-health from the workplace, with five deaths last year.

3) Construction workers

✴ Around 81,000 workers suffered from work-related ill health last year, with 57% being musculoskeletal disorders, and 26% stress, depression, or anxiety.

4) Oil or gas rigger

✴ Common injuries in the oil and gas industry include injury from heavy machinery operation including trauma or crush injuries, dismemberment, fractures, severe burns, explosions, spinal cord injury, paralysis, and chemical exposure.

5) Deep sea divers

✴ It is an isolating and dangerous career that requires divers to be locked up in small decompression chambers for up to 28 days.