A request for information about Staff Sick Leave -17089
Ref: FOI/17089
RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST
I am writing to confirm that the West Midlands Fire Service has now completed its search for the information you requested on 22nd August 2017
Please find below a summary of our findings.
Request
I would like to make a request to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
For each year since 2010:
– how many staff have taken sick leave due to work-related stress;
– what proportion of the entire workforce is that;
– how many working hours/days have been lost due to work-related stress?
Reply
West Midlands Fire Service start recording data for work related stress from 2013 therefore we have supplied data from 2013 to 2017 please see below table.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
| No of people | 7 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| Working days lost | 267 | 285 | 123 | 230 | 3 |
| % of workforce | 0.33 | 0.38 | 0.19 | 0.41 | 0.05 |
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