Did you know? - 20,000 people DIE each year as a result of their work!
- 1,900,000 people in the UK are at this moment living with an injury or illness caused or made worse by their work!
- The UK is ranked 20th OUT OF 30 OECD Industrialised countries listed on the Safety Risk Index!
- In the last 10 years the Health and Safety Executive has reduced the number of workplace inspections by 50%!
- By a strange coincidence the number of employers prosecuted and found to be failing on Safety at Work have dropped by 50%!
- Over the next 3 years the Con Dem Govennment plan to cut the H&SE funding by a further 35%! It is a fact that where a workplace has an active Health and Safety Rep accidents are reduced by an average of 50%!
Draw your own conclusions from the facts which are supplied by the government themselves.
If you would like to mark this in your workplace in some way please contact the your lead learning rep or email rslc-c@hotmail.co.uk or Tel/sms 07500 970822
Please print off the attached poster and display it in your workplace
Take care out there, don't become a statistic
