RoSPA and HSE to deliver conference on workplace traffic safety
February 5, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Royal Society for the Protection of Accidents (RoSPA) are joining forces to deliver a conference on traffic safety in the workplace.
Briefings on current accident as well as enforcement trends and effective solutions and vehicle related safety issues will be included in the 'Managing Workplace Transport Risks Conference: A Matter of Life or Death' event.
Roger Bibbings, occupational safety adviser at the RoSPA, said: "Workplace transport is a key feature of a huge variety of work settings, and can include everything from lorries and cars moving around a site to the use of diggers and fork-lift trucks."
Held on May 14th at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Ian Hetherington, chief executive of Skills for Logistics is expected to be the keynote speaker.
According to the HSE statistics figures show 52 workers and 14 members of the public were killed in accidents involving workplace transport in Britain in 2006-07.
In the same year, workplace transport accidents also led to 1,677 major injuries and 4,233 other injuries requiring people to have more than three days off work.
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Briefings on current accident as well as enforcement trends and effective solutions and vehicle related safety issues will be included in the 'Managing Workplace Transport Risks Conference: A Matter of Life or Death' event.
Roger Bibbings, occupational safety adviser at the RoSPA, said: "Workplace transport is a key feature of a huge variety of work settings, and can include everything from lorries and cars moving around a site to the use of diggers and fork-lift trucks."
Held on May 14th at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, Ian Hetherington, chief executive of Skills for Logistics is expected to be the keynote speaker.
According to the HSE statistics figures show 52 workers and 14 members of the public were killed in accidents involving workplace transport in Britain in 2006-07.
In the same year, workplace transport accidents also led to 1,677 major injuries and 4,233 other injuries requiring people to have more than three days off work.
Find out more about health and safety at work
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