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million people suffered from work related illnesses and people were killed at work. While workplace injuries have reduced we lost million working days due to ill health. To make workplaces in st century Britain healthier and safer we all need to work together to do better. The rising enforcement figures show that negligence in workplace health and safety is not tolerated. We want to continue this. More information about HSE can be found at www. uk HSE publishes a full range of workplace health and safety statistics these can be viewed at hse.

Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2007/c07019.htm

based Economic Policy Institute. Nearly percent of the nation s children are covered by the insurance provided by their parents employers but . million fewer children had benefits in compared with . Public health insurance is no longer offsetting these losses said the report by the nonpartisan think tank. For jobholders this was the sixth straight year of declines in health insurance coverage. The rate fell to just below percent from nearly percent in . More men lost employer provided health benefits than women. For men the rate fell by almost percentage points in the six year period to percent. For women the rate fell just under percentage points to nearly percent. The rate for people born in other countries just topped percent in . percentage points less than in . Whites had the highest rates of employer provided health insurance at . percent though that was off . percentage points in the six year period. For blacks the overall rate was nearly percen! t but off . percentage points from . Hispanics had only a . percent rate of coverage down percentage points. Javascript is not enabled on your browser. Please enable javascript to use the community features on this page. ABC News is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3804618