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Seasonal Workers: Agriculture

Answer

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) does not require dutyholders submitting reports under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) to specify that the report relates to “seasonal agricultural workers”. Therefore, HSE does not hold specific data on the number of RIDDOR reports submitted for “seasonal agricultural workers” in each of the last five years.

HSE does collect RIDDOR reports on injuries and diseases to agricultural workers. The two tables below show the total number of RIDDOR reports received for “agricultural workers” from 1 April to 31 March over the last 5 years.

Table 1 - Reports of injuries*

Year	Non-reportable	Reportable	All reports
2020/21	40	829	869
2021/22	22	786	808
2022/23	26	778	804
2023/24	27	765	792
2024/25	33	786	819

*Table 1 - Injury outcomes include fatal, specified injuries, and over-7-day injuries.

Table 2 - Reports of occupational diseases, exposures to biological agents, and occupational cancers*

Year	Non-reportable	Reportable	All reports
2020/21	3	58	61
2021/22	1	20	21
2022/23	0	16	16
2023/24	0	10	10
2024/25	3	8	11

*Table 2 - Reports of specific occupational diseases, includes those caused by an occupational exposure to a biological agent; and cases of occupational cancer.

Notes on the two tables:

1. These figures for ‘Agricultural workers’ are defined using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 01 – ‘Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities’, this information is selected by the notifier during the reporting process.
2. Reports marked ‘non-reportable’ in the database, are those determined by HSE operational teams as either not meeting the reporting scope of RIDDOR, or reported as a duplicate. These figures are as-reported, no adjustments are made for under-reporting.
3. Data in Tables 1 and 2 is based on RIDDOR reports as notified to HSE. HSE also publish as official statistics numbers of RIDDOR reported injuries. These official statistics have undergone further data quality checks and differ in scope and coverage to numbers in Tables 1 and 2. For more details of official statistics on RIDDOR reported injuries, see www.hse.gov.uk/statistics

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

42553

Session

2024-26

Related items

Seasonal workers: Agriculture
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Agriculture Health hazards Health and Safety Executive Visas Seasonal workers

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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