While trumpeting five decades of lifesaving regulatory successes on the Health and Safety Executive’s 50th birthday, the regulator’s leadership glossed over one inconvenient truth.

The improvements ended years ago. Stone dead.

Latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) annual statistics on work-related ill-health and workplace injuries, published on 20 November 2024, reveal that the number of workers reported to be suffering from work-related ill-health during 2023/24 is 1.7 million –similar to 2022/23, which hit an all-time record 1.8 million workers …