Health and Safety Executive

Shattered Lives

Campaign 2008

Building and Plant Maintenance

Background

• Around half of major injuries from falls occur during building or plant maintenance (more than 1,500 last year)

• Falls are the main cause of workplace fatality. 45 dead last year

• Slips, trips and falls account for more than a third (38%) of all major workplace injuries

Shattered Lives Campaign

Tom’s life shattered

Serious injury

A bad safety record hits profits

Look at the risks

Avoid work at height where possible

Competence is key

You don’t have to fall far to land hard

What next?

• This is what we are doing as a company– Working with the union– Reviewing risk assessment/ method statements– Training/ re-training our workers– Getting new, safer access equipment– Looking at where we can improve housekeeping to

stop trips

• What more could we do to prevent trips and falls?