APHA Workplace Accident and Incident Reports for 2013-2014

2013-2014 records of workplace incidents from the UK's Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA). The dataset includes fields such as a unique reference number, date of incident, type of injury, and time lost days, drawn from the agency's internal adverse incident recording system. APHA records these incidents as part of its legal duties and has promoted reporting of near misses, leading to increased report volumes.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in workplace injury types based on the 'Type of injury' field mentioned in the description.
• Study the impact of reporting policy changes on incident volume based on the noted shift in 'Time Lost' recording in 2014.
• Model the relationship between incident date and time lost based on the 'Date of Incident' and 'Time Lost Days' fields.
• Compare near-miss reporting rates over time based on the description of increased volumes for hazard observations.

Strengths

• Covers a defined two-year period (2013-2014) for temporal analysis.
• Includes a unique reference number for each incident, which likely supports deduplication and tracking.
• Data originates from an official government agency's operational recording system, suggesting authoritative sourcing.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes some data has been edited, but the nature of the edits is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK

Collection Method

Drawn from the adverse incident recording system operated by APHA at the time.

Time Range

2013-2014

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom (based on agency jurisdiction), but not explicitly stated.