The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) welcomes this informed contribution to the debate on measuring progress against the government's targets for occupational health and safety. We recognise the importance of identifying criteria against which the success of the “Revitalising health and safety”2 and “Securing health together”3 strategies will be assessed, and also the difficulty of doing so. We agree that in the area of occupational health, measuring progress against targets presents particular challenges. Three were highlighted by Coggon1:
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Spence et al. (2001) studied this question.