Open letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work related suicides

We are researchers, trade unionists, members of parliament, bereaved family members, charity leaders, business representatives, and investors who share knowledge and experience of the devastating consequences of work related suicide. We urge the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to include work related suicides in its current consultation on reportable deaths and injuries.1 Recognising suicide as a potentially work related death is a first urgent step in making workplaces safer and preventing suicide deaths.An estimated 600 suicide deaths per year in the UK are work related.2 Yet, the HSE continues to exclude suicide from reporting requirements, treating it as an exception in relation to every other work related injury or death.This position is dangerously outdated. It ignores the changing demands of work and its impact on psychological harm or despair. It undermines the HSE’s core mission to keep workplaces safe. It places the UK sharply at odds with health and safety...