http://www.ncdc.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=6685
Accident Prevention and Health at Work - Revitalising Health and Safety
Accidents in the workplace can take a terrible toll, both in terms of economic cost and human suffering. Most are preventable and increasingly, they are leading to compensation claims or other legal action.
There is much that can be learnt after a workplace accident has occurred but it is much better to prevent these accidents happening in the first place.
Consult with your colleagues and employees about the various work activities that may cause harm to themselves or to visitors. Once these have been highlighted, take measures to reduce the likelihood of them occurring. More often than not simple inexpensive measures are all that are required.
Key areas of risk that you should focus on include:
- slips and trips
- workplace transport
- musculoskeletal disorders (manual handling and poor posture)
- falls from height
- stress at work
These are freely downloadable from the right and cover risks in the workplace including slips and trips, falls from height, workplace transport as well as hazardous substances.
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I think the article is interesting because it shows us that in any workplace accidents can occur that can cause physical or psychological harm and of those accidents that happen can be a work of occupational health designing strategies to reduce these accidents average guides or drills
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