HSE: Workplace safety improvements must be maintained
Date posted: 31 Oct 2009
Recent improvements in the UK''s standards of workplace health and safety should now be maintained, it has been suggested.
Figures published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that there was a fall in the amount of employees who died, or sustained illness or injury, between April of last year and March 2009.
According to the HSE, the number of fatal injuries occurring in workplaces dropped to 180 in the 2008-09 period, compared to a figure of 233 the year before.
Recent improvements in the UK''s standards of workplace health and safety should now be maintained, it has been suggested.
Figures published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal that there was a fall in the amount of employees who died, or sustained illness or injury, between April of last year and March 2009.
According to the HSE, the number of fatal injuries occurring in workplaces dropped to 180 in the 2008-09 period, compared to a figure of 233 the year before.
The organisation''s chair Judith Hackitt believes that the latest HSE figures offer cause for encouragement.
She said: "Having shown that Great Britain can achieve a performance that compares favourably with other industrialised nations as we entered the global recession, the challenge now is to maintain that improvement."
Landlords have also recently been encouraged to focus on good gas appliance safety by the HSE, in order to protect their tenants.
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