It has been announced that the PROTECT COVID-19 National Core Study on transmission and environment will continue for another year.
The PROTECT COVID-19 National Core Study is a UK-wide research programme improving understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is transmitted from person to person, and how this varies in different settings and environments.
To help shape this important next stage of the programme, PROTECT would like to hear from anyone with a role to play in controlling transmission of the COVID-19 virus in the UK about the knowledge gaps that could be addressed to support their work.
PROTECT is inviting stakeholders, including government representatives, businesses and members of the public to participate in a short survey.
Take the survey
Closing at 10am on Monday 7 February
Professor Andrew Curran, Chief Scientific Adviser at HSE and PROTECT study lead, reflects on the progress of the programme to date in his blog, Making PROTECT count for our stakeholders.
Professor Curran has also co-authored an article in The Conversation, on why we need better data on workplace transmission to understand how, when and where people are infected:
Lessons from COVID-19 for the next pandemic: we need better data on workplace transmission.
Construction workers across the UK have played a vital role in keeping the country running during the pandemic.
A recently published research report describes a scoping study aimed at improving understanding of the construction sector’s efforts to build a ‘COVID-secure' workplace.
The work was carried out by researchers from the Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research, a research collaboration between the University of Manchester and HSE. It was funded by the PROTECT National Core Project.
Read the report:
Keeping the UK Building Safely: a scoping study
Given the relative lack of knowledge about the interface between long COVID and work, HSE commissioned a study to consider the scientific evidence.
The researchers summarised the evidence on the impact of long COVID on work, the workplace, and return to work interventions in the published scientific literature to 8 March 2021.
Read the report:
Return to work after long COVID: evidence at 8 March 2021
In December, HSE published statistics that cover work-related ill-health and non-fatal workplace injuries for the 2020/21 period.
The annual report found that in Great Britain, 1.7 million working people are suffering from work-related ill-health.
Two new estimates were developed to measure the impact of the coronavirus pandemic:
- 93,000 workers self-reported catching COVID-19 at work; 52,000 of these worked in the human health and social work sector
- 645,000 workers reported that their work-related illness was caused or made worse by the pandemic; 70 per cent of these were cases of stress, depression or anxiety
Our statistics website provides detailed commentary on these figures.
It is HSE policy to make the results of research available, wherever possible. View the latest science publications and research reports.
For the latest news on HSE science follow our Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA), Professor Andrew Curran, on Twitter.
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