Visits/Premises


We have been able to analyse 346 local authorities. In total, inspectors from these local authorities undertook 248,166 visits to 949,966 registered premises. If each visit concerned a different workplace, a local authority registered premises had a one in four chance of a visit . However it is likely that many of these visits would have been to the same workplace – but it is not possible from the annual returns to analyse how many visits were made to different workplaces.

There are however wide differences between the Local Authorities. Kennet District Council has the highest ratios of ‘visits to premises’ - 1515 visits to 1226 premises (on average more than one visit per premises) - whilst the London Borough of Redbridge had the second lowest - 63 visits for 4444 premises (just over 1 in a 100 chance of a visit per premises). It is notable that Rossendale District Council reported no visits to its 1540 registered premises. We have no way of knowing if this is a reporting error on their part.

Wholesale shops, Warehouses and fuel storage depots
We looked at one particular category of premises in further detail - "Wholesale shops, Warehouses and fuel storage depots".

We have looked at this as, along with residential care homes, there is a higher rate of reported injuries than the other sectors.

We were able to analyse the returns of 317 Local Authorities. The levels of visits range from Swindon Unity Authority where there were 482 visits for 74 premises (on average each of these premises would have received six visits) to Flyde Borough Council with no visits and to Redbridge London Borough Council where there was just two visits to its 243 premises.