HSE focuses on trips and slips in Scottish workplaces
March 10, 2008
New figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that trips and slips caused 4081 injuries and five deaths at work in Scotland last year.
The cost of these accidents across Scotland to business was £67 million.
The HSE has this month launched a new campaign, called "Shattered Lives" to raise awareness of just how dangerous apparently simple falls can be.
The campaign will be focused on the construction, building and plant maintenance, food manufacturing and retail industries, where the number and seriousness of injuries caused by trips is highest.
HSE director Stewart Campbell said: "Each year slips, trips and falls cost the British society nearly £811 million. But what these figures don't reflect is the extent to which these injuries affect individual workers and their families.
"They can lead to major injuries, and a lifetime of disability or time off work and in worst cases fatalities. Shattered Lives will encourage people to change their attitudes: if you spot a hazard, don't assume 'somebody else will sort it out'."
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The cost of these accidents across Scotland to business was £67 million.
The HSE has this month launched a new campaign, called "Shattered Lives" to raise awareness of just how dangerous apparently simple falls can be.
The campaign will be focused on the construction, building and plant maintenance, food manufacturing and retail industries, where the number and seriousness of injuries caused by trips is highest.
HSE director Stewart Campbell said: "Each year slips, trips and falls cost the British society nearly £811 million. But what these figures don't reflect is the extent to which these injuries affect individual workers and their families.
"They can lead to major injuries, and a lifetime of disability or time off work and in worst cases fatalities. Shattered Lives will encourage people to change their attitudes: if you spot a hazard, don't assume 'somebody else will sort it out'."
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