Health and Safety in the news this
week
The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) has recently published annual statistics on health and safety in Great
Britain for 2017.
Under the heading of Vital
Statistics 2017, the illustration below shows how much time was lost to
ill-health and injury, and sadly, that 137 lives were lost at work during the
year.
The HSE also publish a booklet
which breaks down the statistics further into industry type, which may be of
interest in giving feedback to workers about the importance of observing health
and safety regulations and safe working practices, and the consequences of poor
health and safety. The booklet is
available from the HSE website, and breaks the statistics down to include:-
·
Work related ill-health and disease
·
Workplace injury
·
Enforcement of health and safety legislation
·
Working days lost as a result of health and safety incidents
Source: www.hse.gpv.uk
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