Shattered Lives in West Yorkshire - 04-04-2008
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All 25 minutes, or someone with a broken bone in the workplace, according to the latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Last year, in the Yorkshire and Humber entire 4466 people were injured calculating the area of almost 77 million pounds. In West Yorkshire only two people died and 603 people were injured as an important result of a slip, trip or fall on the workplace. Given all these violations to take account of the lives of 1852 people were affected. The figures are alarming - across the country every week, someone dies of a slip, fall or Stolper-in the workplace and serious injuries caused by slips, trips and falls constitute almost one-third of all injuries of the HSE. HSE’s Head of Operations, in Yorkshire and the Humber said Geoff Cox; “Every year, slips, trips and falls cost of British society up to £ 811 million - with more than 30 million pounds of these West Yorkshire. But that does not reflect these figures, is the extent to which those violations relate to various employees and their families. “Slips, trips and falls can be seen as small, accidents funny, but the effects are not. The result may be that major injury, a lifetime of disability or the exemption from work and the worst case, death. ” Shattered Lives “is the man to promote, change their parameters: if you are at risk on the ground, was unable to” someone else sort it out. ” “Slips, trips and falls also dismantle undertaken by the costs of absenteeism among employees, continued payment of wages in case of illness and productivity decreases. Regardless of the size of the company and the work that you do, it may happen to you. ” HSE’s Shattered Lives campaign offers support and advice to employers and workers in the construction, building and maintenance and production and retail food sectors in which the incidence of injuries as a result of slips, trips and falls is the highest. |