Dear FOI team,

I am looking for information on the amount of injuries sustained by airport ground handling staff whilst at work, and I would like to request the following information.

Q1. In 2019, how many times were you called out to attend to a patient at an airport, where the patient was a "ground handler", "baggage handler", "ground staff", "ground attendant" or "baggage attendant"?
Q1 i. Please provide a monthly breakdown of the total - for example, how many of these happened in January? How many in February? etc.
Q1 ii. Please provide incident notes with details of injuries where possible.

Q2. In 2022 so far (up to and including Sunday 10th July 2022), how many times were you called out to attend to a patient at an airport, where the patient was a "ground handler", "baggage handler", "ground staff", "ground attendant" or "baggage attendant"?
Q2 i. Please provide a monthly breakdown of the total - for example, how many happened in January? How many in February? etc.
Q2 ii. Please provide incident notes with details of injuries where possible.

Many thanks,
Charlotte

Good morning Ashleigh,

I am disappointed that the request has been declined without any attempt to ask me to clarify or change my request.

Is it possible for you to search call outs to the following address please:

East Midlands Airport
DE74 2SA

With the profession searched as key words in the report? The key words for suggested use are quoted in my original request.

Many thanks,
Charlotte Lynch

Good morning Ashleigh,

Thank you very much for your response. Can I just clarify whether this data is for all callouts to airports please, or whether you did search the specific keywords?

If the latter, please can I have data for all callouts to airports for the dates requested? So I can compare it.

Many thanks,

Charlotte Lynch