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HSE Issues Fresh Warning Over Workplace Safety (3 January 2012)

Date: 03/01/2012
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, HSE Issues Fresh Warning Over Workplace Safety

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has highlighted the importance of adequate health and safety measures in the workplace following an increase in deaths in workplaces in Wales. In 2010/11, 11 employees died in the workplace, an increase of four on the previous year. A further 1,399 employees suffered a major injury while at work. The HSE has maintained, however, that Wales remains in possession of one of the lowest workplace death levels in Europe.

Nick O'Connor, Wales’ principal HSE inspector, claimed that the recent figures served as a reminder of the importance of adequate health and safety measures in the workplace. Mr. O’Connor has told of how employers must concentrate their efforts on tackling the dangers that employees face on a daily basis. He added that while Wales has low workplace deaths in comparison to the rest of Europe, one death in the workplace remains one death too many. Mr. O’Connor is urging businesses to concentrate on reducing the number of workplace deaths in 2012.

The number of deaths in the workplace in the past year also increased across the remainder of Britain. During 2010/11, 171 died while at work. In 2009/10, 147 deaths occurred in the workplace. In the UK in this past year alone, there were 50 deaths in the construction industry, 34 deaths in the agricultural industry and 9 deaths in the waste and recycling industry.

Duncan Lewis’ personal injury solicitors represent employees who have suffered from serious injuries in the workplace.

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