RSI costing UK economy £300m a year

Employers should provide Occupational Health services by law to prevent and reduce repetitive strain injury (RSI) which costs the UK economy £300m a year, a health body has warned.

The latest figure from the Health and Safety Executive show that 213,000 people in work had a musculoskeletal upper limb or neck disorder caused or made worse by work . An estimated 2.8m working days are lost each year due to RSI with each person affected taking 13.3 days off sick on average.

Work related RSI cases are at an all time high and the cost to businesses is spiralling as changing trends see professional staff working more on the move than ever before, according to research by Microsoft.


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