Hello to all, I have a friend that is in need of some stats for a presentation he is putting together. I was advised this may be a great place to get some help. I am trying to get some statistics on chemical injury in UK, EMEA, APAC, Globally etc. For example - "number of minutes you need to wash your eyes after sulphuric acid gets in them". I am looking for things like figures on number deaths, costs to economies, anything really! Does anybody have a resource they can pass on? Something like an industry specific website or the like. Any help or direction would be appreciated. Thanks! WO

There is HSE RIDDOR data that you can look up, such as exposure to harmful substances or burns etc. the down side is that even with the RIDDOR data, it only gives numbers, not rates, therefore it is extremely difficult to benchmark. I am not too sure regarding any formal system for compilation of actual emergency first aid response times. Emergency responders will irrigate chemical burns depending upon the MSDS or thier own training information. The only relevant time critical element in emergency response, in my view is the speed of response and application of fiorst aid from the time the alarm was raised, by whatever means. Injuries to employees by kind of accident, severity of injury and industry http://www.hse.gov.uk/st...tics/tables/ridkind1.xls Injuries to the self-employed by kind of accident, severity of injury and industry http://www.hse.gov.uk/st...tics/tables/ridkind2.xls Fatal injuries to employees, self-employed and workers by kind of accident and industry http://www.hse.gov.uk/st...tics/tables/ridkind3.xls Injuries to employees by nature and severity of injury http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/ridnat.xls

Treat all statistics about chemical injury with extreme caution, particularly where skin exposure is concerned. The European Dermal Forum recently reviewed national statistics and the way they were collected and concluded that the statistics on occupational skin disease understated the real picture, depending upon country, by a factor ranging form 10 to 50! In addition, we have no overall statistics at all on the contribution that skin uptake and penetration makes to systemic disease. What studies there are indicate that this could be very significant. I was at a meeting last February in Geneva organised by the WHO/ILO and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology where the global prevalence of occupational skin disease was studied. The conclusion of the WHO was that this is one of the three most common causes of occupational disease. The EU Agency for Safety and Health at Work has estimated that occupational skin disease costs the EU annually Euros 600 million (but see comments above, as this is based on national statistics). Chris Chris