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It is important to continue to monitor performance and examine trends to determine whether and where changes
need to be made, and use this information to determine industry’s actions. Monitoring the non-fatal injury rate
will maintain focus on improving safety performance and, in turn, prevent tragic incidents like the fatality that
occurred last year.
The non-fatal injury rate is calculated from the number of over-seven-day and specified injuries reported
to the HSE6, as well as offshore population figures calculated from Vantage POB data. The breakdown of
over-seven-day and specified injuries per 100,000 workers since 2001 is given below. The over-seven-day injury
rate has increased from 249 in 2015 to 301 injuries per 100,000 workers in 2016. However, 2015 represented a
historic low, and although any increase is unwelcome, the rate for 2016 remains the third lowest since the measure
was first calculated in 1995-96. Strain and sprains remain the main causes of over-seven-day injuries last year.
The specified injury rate decreased to just under 73 per 100,000workers – its lowest recorded level. This represents
a decrease of 43 per cent since 2013 when the RIDDOR category “major injury” was redefined to “specified injury”.
Figure 4: Over-Seven-Day and Specified Injury Rate per 100,000 Workers
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*Period of reporting changed from fiscal to calendar year Source: Health and Safety Executive, Vantage POB
6 Defined list of reportable injuries in Regulation 4 of RIDDOR 2013.
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