A goal of FAME’s Health & Safety strategy is to assemble industry injury and accident data to assist with the development of preventative measures and improved ways of working. This is FAME’s sixth Health and Safety Injury Survey; the first was for the 2009-10 financial year, and since 2018-19 we have undertaken these surveys annually. This report covers the financial year 2022-23, and only covers archaeologists working in the UK. Some key findings:

  1. Archaeology has lower RIDDOR accident rates than the construction industry.
  2. £8.1 million is lost each year in development-led archaeology to ill health, injury and stress.
  3. Near misses – are under-reported in the sector.

The full report:

FAME Health and Safety Injury Survey 2022-23 Version 1.0Download