"sickness rate" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the rate at which people become sick in a certain population or area, either in an absolute or relative sense such as compared to the previous year. For example: "The sickness rate in the city rose significantly this year due to a particularly virulent strain of influenza."
Since appointing our HR manager, the staffs' short-term sickness rate has plummeted.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: As production Minister, you were vitally interested in reducing the sickness rate among workers, were you not?
The staff sickness rate has been above the average for England since May 2014 and has continued to rise.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, special cases-part of production is in all cases, is it not, dependent upon the sickness rate of your labor force, and is it not a fact-as a man engaged in production you will know this-that the two greatest difficulties in manpower and production are sickness and rapid turnover, and that those factors reduce production?
Their sickness rate of 7.53% is the highest in the Welsh NHS and almost double that of the police which is 4%.
"Some areas of the council's work, such as front-line social work, will create greater stresses and demands and will inevitably have a higher than average sickness rate," a spokeswoman said.
The council has one of the highest staff sickness rates of Wales' local authorities with staff taking an average of 12.5 sick days in 2016-17.
You chase any government or Department of Health targets, such as sickness rates and flu vaccination rates.
Employers benefit from the high productivity and low sickness rates of workers with autism and save time through less social chit chat, according to Crouch.
It's not good enough to say the NHS will save £400m by tackling staff sickness rates, admirable though that ambition is.
The obvious counter to this argument is that, without the healing properties of flatulence, sickness rates could be much higher than they are.
