Best Practice Awards

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards last week. We were pleased to sponsor the Business Card Draw at the event.

Congratulations to Adrian Coles of the Building Society Association who won a Magnum of Champagne...

and Des O'Hare of The Association of Colleges Management Services who won a signed football picture.

Take a look at our website to see how we can help the members of your trade association with their health and safety issues.

Worker deaths in Britain fall to record low

New figures released by HSE on 30th June show the number of people killed at work in Britain fell to a record low last year.

The provisional figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that worker deaths in Britain are at an all time low and this can only be described as great news!

There is more work to do in agriculture and clearly construction must strive to continue the downward trend. So whilst the news is very welcome given the plateau of recent years, we must be careful not to become complacent, particularly as we climb out of recession and perhaps try to create more output with fewer people.

Experience from recent economic cycles shows that there are often fewer fatalities during recessions. Sensible risk management is even more important – a message that Lord Young will hopefully be aware of – now is not the time to ease off the throttle – we need to be more vigilant, not less so.

Health of course remains a challenge with cases of traditional occupational disease such as COPD and silicosis still on the rise, and stress related ill-health and musculoskeletal disorder stubbornly refusing to fall.

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