The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published the latest statistics on workplace safety, work-related ill-health and enforcement action in Great Britain. Health and Safety Statistics Highlights 2002/03 presents the top-level statistics - including reports on progress against the targets set in the Revitalising Health and Safety strategy - and it is available at www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overall/hssh0203.pdf. More detailed data and commentary are available on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Web site at www.hse.gov.uk/statistics.

Some sets of statistics have already been released this year: Statistics of fatalities for 2002/03 were published in July 2003 in the Statistics of Fatal Injuries 2002/03, available at www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overall/fatl0203.pdf; and statistics on work-related ill health were published in September 2003 in the Occupational Health Statistics Bulletin 2002/03, available at www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overall/ohsb0203.pdf.

Full details of HSE's enforcement action were released on 5 November 2003 in the Offences and Penalties Report.

Copies of Health and Safety Statistics Highlights 2002/03 are free and can be ordered from the Safety and Enforcement Statistics Unit, Health and Safety Executive, Room 403, Daniel House, Bootle, Merseyside L20 3TW. Phone: (+44) 151 951 3864/4600. Fax: (+44) 152 951 3827.