The report provides an overview of the state of occupational safety and health as well as its developments. Data from different thematic fields are analysed for the report:

• Accidents at work (including schoolchildren)
• Occupational diseases (including schoolchildren)
• Incapacity for work including cost estimations of losses
• Working conditions
• Retirement
• Personnel and activities of the Federal Labour Inspectorate and accident insurance agencies

In addition, reports of other important occupational safety and health actors such as the Joint German Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA) are included. Furthermore, there is an alternating annual focus topic (except for the "more detailed" reports, see below).

Use of the figures from the report

The reproduction and dissemination of the figures is permitted only with reference to the source. For the use in publications of all kinds (book contributions, articles, but also lectures), the following source is always to be cited: "BMAS/BAuA (year of publication, e.g. 2024): Safety and Health at Work - Reporting Year 2023. Downloaded from www.baua.de/suga". If possible, the authors responsible are to be credited when articles on specific topics in the report are cited, for example "Rösler, U. & Lück, M. (2024). Arbeits- und Gesundheitssituation von Erwerbstätigen in personenbezogenen Dienstleistungen (pDL). In: BMAS/BAuA (Eds.), Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit - Berichtsjahr 2022 (S. 42-49)."

From 2009 to 2022, a digitally enhanced version of the report is also available for download, containing Excel tables for (almost) all tables and illustrations with the respective numbers. In this way, readers can work with these numbers in a simplified way.

"More detailed" reports

The report is published in a more detailed form every four years (see Report 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 ...). While the other reports are largely limited to the representation of statistical data (presented in the form of tables and figures), the "more detailed" reports contain different articles and more detailed information on selected topics. In the case of these reports, no additional focus topic is selected.

Publication date and structure of the report

This report is finalised by the end of the year following the reporting year. The report is divided into two parts: firstly, there is a text section that contains brief explanations of the statistical material offered; and, secondly, a table section with additional figures. For a better overview, references to related tables in the table part are contained in the text part.

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