LRD guides and handbook October 2024

Health and Safety Law 2024

The report also explains how trade union involvement saves the economy millions of pounds by helping to reduce workplace injuries and occupational ill-health and developing a more positive safety culture at work. A 2016 analysis of figures from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey showed that savings delivered by unions across the economy ranged between £476 million and £1,250 million (at 2014 prices). Prevention of workplace injuries and work-related ill-health contributed over half of the overall union-related savings (£219 million — £725 million a year).