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08/12/2008
HSE launches new strategy workshops |
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A series of workshops on its new strategy have been initiated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
In order to reset the direction for health and safety, the HSE has set a number of goals, including building the competence of those who are in charge of delivering health and safety in workplaces.
Prompted by the recent slowing of improvement in the UK's health and safety performance - as well the different risks posed by new sectors - another goal of the strategy is to avoid catastrophes in the UK's high hazard industries.
In 1974, the year the Health and Safety at Work etc Act was introduced, more than 600 people were killed each year at work. In 2007-08, 229 employees were killed at work, the HSE said.
Judith Hackitt, chair of the HSE, is calling upon employers, the self-employed, manufacturers, suppliers and trades unions to work with the executive.
"We all share the same mission; to prevent death, injury and ill health in our workplaces, but HSE and its local authority partners […] cannot do this alone," she said.
Ms Hackitt added that the HSE needs to regain the brand from those who misuse it to "proliferate bureaucracy".
HSE workshops are scheduled to take place in January in Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, London and Glasgow. |
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