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Accident statistics from the HSE Health and safety in the
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motor vehicle repair (MVR) industry In 2001, ii was estimated that the MVR industry in the UK employed just over 170,000 people in about 44,000 businesses. The statistics also show that the industry is still dominated by small and medium-sized businesses, with more than half the workforce (58%) employed in either zero-employee enterprises, eg sole traders or partnerships, or businesses employing fewer than 10 people. Companies with fewer than 50 people accounted for approximately 83% of the workforce.
The HSE's contact with the industry is through the MVR Health and Safety Forum, set up in June 1999 to co-ordinate the interests and activities of all those involved with health and safety in the industry.
The industry has fatal and all injuries" accident rates higher than the average for manufacturing as a whole. Over the three years from 2001 to 2003, nearly 5,500 injuries were reported to the HSE and local authorities from businesses where the main activity was MVR.
During the same period there were 16 fatal in:}uries to employees or self-employed persons, and almost 1,200 other major/serious injuries, some involving members of the public. The actual figures for serious and less serious iniuries will be much higher than those quoted due to considerable under-reporting to the enforcing authorities.