The Hazards Campaign
is a network of
resource centres and campaigners
on health and safety at work
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The Hazards Campaign
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News release * 25 June 2009 * Immediate use Hazards Campaign welcomes reduction in workplaces deaths but calls for action on the true extent of deaths, disability and injury Speaking after the announcement yesterday by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), our workplace health and safety police, that there has been a reduction from 233 workers killed in 2007/8 down to 180 in 2008/9 with the previous lowest recorded in 2005/6 at 217. Mick Holder of the Hazards Campaign said: “The reduction in deaths is very good news indeed. However, it must be taken in the context that very many more people lose their lives because of work activity who are not recorded by the HSE, such as the huge number of people killed on the roads who are at work at the time or the thousands that die from asbestos diseases from contact at work. There are also still worrying areas, such as the increasingly poor record of the waste and recycling industry.” The HSE estimate the cost to the UK economy of workplace injury, disability and ill-health to be possibly as high as £30billion every year. To reduce this, the Hazards Campaign continues to call for:
Contact: 020 8223 0712 or 0161 636 7557 Further information Hazards Campaign on the true extent of workplace injury HSE Press Release on fatalities The Hazards Campaign is a national campaign on occupational and environmental health and safety issues that has been in existence since 1988. http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/
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The Hazards Campaign,
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