Facts and Figures from Health and Safety Roadshow

On the 22nd January, the Health and Safety Roadshow came to Bristol. 

See hse.gov.uk for the full story, in the meantime here is an overview provided for the event:

1. The six themes for the strategy are:
   
   1. Promoting broader ownership of workplace health and safety
   2. Highlighting and tackling the burden of work-related ill-health
   3. Supporting small firms
   4. Enabling productivity through proportionate risk management
   5. Anticipating and tackling the challenges of new technology and ways of working
   6. Sharing the benefits or Great Britain’s approach
2. Britain has one of the lowest rates of fatal injuries at work in Europe.
3. There has been a huge reduction in deaths and injuries at work in the 40 years since the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 was introduced – for example, 86 per cent fewer fatal injuries to employees in 2014/15 compared to 1974. But, in 2014/15:
   
   1. 142 people did not come home from work
   2. 611,000 more suffered a non-fatal injury at work
   3. 1.2 million working people were suffering from a work-related illness
   4. £14.3billion was the cost to Great Britain of injuries and new cases of ill-health from current working conditions
   5. 27.3million working days were lost to work-related ill health or injury