FOI/202500462252 · FOI · not held
Scottish Government employee accident at work statistics: FOI release
Information requested
For each year of 2017, 2018 and 2019, the number of accidents at work formally recorded amongst all Scottish government employees, including the headcount of employees for each year For the same years, the headcount of employees who were required to work in government offices and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort For the same years, the headcount of employees in each year who worked from home and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort For the years 2020 and 2021, the headcount of all employee and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded For the years 2020 and 2021, the headcount of employees who were required to work in government offices and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort For the years 2020 and 2021, the headcount of employees in each year who worked from home and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort For the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for all Scottish government employees, including the headcount of employees for each year For the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, the headcount of employees who were required to work in government offices and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort For the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, the headcount of employees in each year who worked from home and the number of accidents at work in each year formally recorded for that cohort A copy of the policies covering accidents at work, including how government has differentiated between accidents at government office locations and accidents occurring at home while working from home For each year, the total cumulative payments made out to employees as a result of accidents at work, including a breakdown covering those accidents happening at government office locations and those happening at home
Response
I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested.
The answer to your question is below:
For points 1, 4 and 7, please find the information in the table below:
Year Headcount* Total Accidents Of those, accidents at home Of those, accidents in the office 2017 5535 125 Nil 125 2018 6170 112 1 111 2019 6827 100 Nil 100 2020 7271 48 2 46 2021 8291 35 Nil 35 2022 8848 47 Nil 47 2023 8824 39 2 37 2024 8975 51 1 50
* Taken from Scottish Government workforce information - gov.scot. Using the total FTE data for Q4 of each year.
For points 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9, you ask the headcount of employees in each year who worked from home and in government offices. The Scottish Government (SG) has implemented a hybrid working policy which applies to the majority of our employees. Hybrid working arrangements ensure that colleagues combine working from home with a presence in a workplace (and for some roles, with stakeholders and in communities) each week and may vary from week to week depending on business need.
As agreements on hybrid working are reached locally between the employee and their manager they are not recorded centrally and we therefore do not have ways to monitor or track how many of our employees are working remotely versus working in Scottish Government facilities.
Therefore, whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not hold the data that you have requested on the numbers who worked from home and in government offices. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.
For item 10 you ask for A copy of the policies covering accidents at work, including how government has differentiated between accidents at government office locations and accidents occurring at home while working from home. Please find the response below:
The specific guidance on Accident Reporting is provided in Appendix A. Guidance for staff is updated more frequently on staff intranet pages, see Appendix B, this was regularly reviewed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and is reviewed on a regular basis now.
For item 11, you ask for each year, the total cumulative payments made out to employees as a result of accidents at work, including a breakdown covering those accidents happening at government office locations and those happening at home. Please information see below:
Period Total cumulative payments Of those, accidents at home Of those, accidents in the office 2017-24 £230,442.00 Nil £230,442.00
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Detected exemption language
This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.