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STATISTICAL AUDIT OF THE HSE

Chapter One: Contact and Inspections (cont)

Ratios between numbers of registered premises and different types of Contact

The following Tables, 10 and 11, look at the year 2000/01 in further detail. They compare the number of contacts with the number of premises in each area and each industry. The information on the number of premises relates to the number of premises as of February 2002, and so does not relate exactly to the year 2000/01. It is, however, sufficiently accurate for the purposes of this brief analysis.

The Tables gives details of the number of total contacts/premises ratio in different industries and in different areas. Table 10 shows that whilst on average 1 in 3 Manufacturing premises has a contact with an inspector, in Agriculture this is about 1 in 10. Table 11 shows that the highest average level of contact was in Merseyside – with the lowest in Northern Home Counties

Table 10: Total Number of premises and contacts by industry (2000/01)

	Nos Premises	Nos Contacts	Ratio
Manufacturing	179,901	59,445	33%
Construction	127,098	41,729	32.8%
Energy/Extractive	13,078	2,863	21.9%
Service Sector	277,729	49,766	18.0%
Agriculture	138,178	16,073	11.6%
TOTAL	735,984	169,876	23.1

Table 11
Total Number of premises and contacts by HSE Area (2000/01)

	Nos Premises	Nos Contacts	Ratio
Merseyside	29,724	9,086	31.0%
Greater Manchester	30,358	8,885	29.2%
Scotland East	47,359	13,664	28.8%
North Midlands	32,086	8,509	26.5%
North East	28,584	7,582	26.5%
North West	32,074	8,333	26.0%
Scotland West	29,091	7,235	24.9%
South	47,047	11,232	23.9%
Marches	38,046	8,954	23.5%
West Midlands	30,199	6,971	23.1%
N & W Yorkshire	41,886	9,224	22.0%
Wales	48,475	10,483	21.6%
South East	40,434	8,678	21.5%
South Yorkshire	28,138	5,938	21.1%
Greater London	61,948	12,880	20.8%
South West	53,220	10,525	19.8%
East Midlands	36,562	7,042	19.3%
East Anglia	40,657	7,521	18.5%
N/thn Home Counties	40,196	7,134	18.0%

Whilst Tables 10 and 11 were concerned with the total number of premises and contacts, Tables 12 and 13 are concerned with the number of premises which have at least one contact (this is because some premises have more than one contacts)

They show that, nationally, about one in nine registered premises has at least one contact with an FOD inspector each year. Table 12 shows that in Construction it is just over one in five whilst in Agriculture it is one in twelve. Table 13 shows that in Merseyside one in six registered premises had at least one contact, but in East Anglia it is one in ten.

It is worth emphasising that these statistics mean that in 2000/01, 90% of registered premises (including about a 100,000 construction sites) had no contact with a FOD inspector.

It is interesting to note that whilst the ratio of total contacts/premises for Construction and Manufacturing is about the same (Table 10), the number of premises in Manufacturing with at least one contact is significantly less than Construction. This shows that FOD inspectors made, on average, more contacts for each Manufacturing premises than for each Construction site.

Table 12
Number of different premises (by industry) with one inspector contact or more, (2000/01)

	Nos Premises	Nos Premises with Contact	Ratio
Construction	127,098	28,706	22.6%
Manufacturing	179,901	26,819	14.9%
Service	277,729	25,264	9.0%
Energy/Extractive	13,078	1,159	8.9%
Agriculture	138,178	11,514	8.3%

Table 13
Number of different premises (by HSE area) with one inspector contact or more, 2000/01

	Nos Premises	Nos Premises with Contact	Ratio
Merseyside	29,724	4,600	16%
Scotland East	47,359	7,198	15.2%
Scotland West	29,091	4,439	15.0%
North West	32,074	4,816	15%
Greater Manchester	30,358	4,497	14.8%
North Midlands	32,086	4,571	14.2%
N & W Yorkshire	41,886	5,710	13.6%
North East	28,584	3,857	13.5%
South	47,047	6,268	13.3%
West Midlands	30,199	3,862	12.8%
South East	40,434	5,126	12.7%
Marches	38,046	4,667	12.3%
East Midlands	36,562	4,276	11.7%
Wales	48,475	5,687	11.7%
South West	53,220	6,029	11.3%
South Yorkshire	28,138	3,048	10.8%
Greater London	61,948	6,622	10.7%
N/thn Home Counties	40,196	4,150	10%
East Anglia	40,657	4,039	9.9%
TOTAL	735,984	93,462	12.7%

Tables 14 and 15 set out the total number of premises by industry and area, which have had at least one inspection. Nationally, one in 20 premises received at least one inspection during the course of the year, though this ranged from 1 in 10 in Construction to 1 in 36 in the Service sector, and between 1 in 13 in the North West to 1 in 33 in Northern Home Counties. Again, it needs to be emphasised that these are mostly very low levels of inspection.

Table 14
Numbers of different premises (by industry) with at least one inspection, (2000/01)

	Nos Premises	Nos Premises with Inspection	Ratio
Construction	127,098	13,378	10.5%
Manufacturing	179,901	13,517	7.5%
Energy/Extractive	13,078	571	4.4%
Agriculture	138,178	5,051	3.6%
Service Sector	277,729	7,720	2.7%
TOTAL	735,984	40,237	5.5%

Table 15
Numbers of different premises (by HSE area) with at least one inspection, 2000/01

	Nos Premises	Nos Premises with Inspection	Ratio
North West	32,074	2,451	7.6%
Scotland East	47,359	3,413	7.2%
Scotland West	29,091	2,036	7.0%
South	47,047	2,986	6.3%
North East	28,584	1,800	6.3%
Merseyside	29,724	1,835	6.2%
South East	40,434	2,379	5.9%
Greater London	61,948	3,657	5.9%
N & W Yorkshire	41,886	2,376	5.7%
East Midlands	36,562	2,045	5.6%
Greater Manchester	30,358	1,683	5.5%
Marches	38,046	2,047	5.4%
South West	53,220	2,843	5.3%
Wales	48,475	2,329	4.8%
West Midlands	30,199	1,360	4.5%
North Midlands	32,086	1,456	4.5%
South Yorkshire	28,138	1,130	4.0%
East Anglia	40,657	1,204	3.0%
N/thn Home Counties	40,196	1,207	3.0%

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