Workplace illness drives £861m in sick pay costs across England, analysis finds
Women lost 16.6 million days to work-related illness, around 500,000 more than men, according to health and safety experts at Protecting.co.uk.
Staff in England are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, with an average of 9.4 days a year, recent analysis from Protecting.co.uk found.
Health and safety experts at Protecting.co.uk linked workplace injury and illness to an estimated £861.6m a year in statutory sick pay.
Nearly £764m of that was down to illness, while injury-related absences made up £98.1m.
Women lost 16.6 million days to work-related illness, around 500,000 more than men.
Women also lost more days to stress, with 536,000 cases compared to 350,000 among men.
Men lost 2.8 million days to injury, double the total lost by women.
Injury at work was nearly 20 times more likely to be fatal for men, who also lost twice as many days to injury.
Per 100,000 workers, 5,770 women reported work-related ill health, compared with 4,680 men.
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