Fall in fatal injuries to workers
New provisional figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal a fall in the number of workers killed in Britain in the last year – down to 148 between April 2012 and March 2013, from 172 in the previous year. The overall rate of fatal injury has dropped to 0.5 per 100,000 workers, below […]
BSC launches health & safety manifesto
The British Safety Council (BSC) has launched its health and safety manifesto, ‘Working Well’, which sets out five steps to help improve workplace safety and reduce the number of work related injuries. According to the BSC, there are still too many people being killed or injured at work. Figures quoted by the BSC show that […]