It will depend on all sorts of different variables including sector, sub-sector, location, size of enterprise etc etc.

You also need to know the variants of reporting/recording requirements//organisational policies and practices before you can compare on a like for like basis.

For example, there is no common definition in the EU as to what constitutes a fatal accident. At one time in one part of Italy if they got you into the ambulance and off site before you died, not a fatal. That's changed but traditionalists in the UK are very reluctant to move from the year and a day position.

Similarly, the UK is one of very few developed nations that doesn't count MOST work-related road traffic accidents that would otherwise meet requirements for notification. This means that HSE has pulled the wool over the eyes of at least three independent reviews when it comes to benchmarking against other EU states.

IOSH recommendation is 'per 100 people per year' (full-time equivalent is there are some part-time people), as the easiest to understand by non-specialists - which is of course who we meed to communicate this data to! Also, as most organisations no longer count actual hours worked (e.g. via a punched time card, as was typical in factories where comparisons first began). The 100 people roughly equate to 200,000 hours, the OSHA standard as mentioned above.

Also, HSE data for sector-wide UK results is published as 'per 10,000 people', so you just have to divide their data by 100 for comparisons. However the UK 'standard' for injuries used to be 'per 100,000 hours' and many organisations still use that - so you have to be careful with comparisons.