Developing the evidence base for a new health and work strategy for Great Britain

<span class="paragraphSection">In its refreshed strategy, Helping Great Britain Work Well [<a href="#CIT0001" class="reflinks">1</a>], the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) signalled intent to ‘put the health back into health and safety’. This was not just an attempt to separate the elements of what is often perceived as a compound noun, but more im portantly a reflection that we should be aiming to deliver real and substantial improvements in this area. The statistics for the UK are now well known: around 13000 deaths each year from work-related lung disease and cancer are estimated to have been caused by past exposures at work; and an estimated 1.2 million people who worked in 2014/15 were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by work, of which, 516000 were new cases which started in the year.</span>

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