Posts Tagged ‘trips & falls’
06/05/2011
Fit Note needs more work
Just one in five manufacturing companies believes the fit note has helped reduce sickness absence, a new survey by the trade organisation EEF has found. The sickness absence survey for 2011 shows respondents remain concerned that employees are being signed off unnecessarily and believe further action is necessary. The fit note, which replaced traditional […]
02/05/2011
Managing cables on construction sites
Did you know? Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work and can happen almost anywhere. 95% of major slips result in broken bones and they can also be the initial cause for a range of other types of accident such as a fall from height. Slips and trips are […]
16/04/2011
Teachers’ damages payments revealed
These cases are examples of claims which saw teachers win millions of pounds in compensation in 2010 for accidents, injuries, assaults or unfair dismissal at school. A teacher won £200,000 in compensation after slipping on a grape, because the injury aggravated an existing hernia problem; he was eventually unable to work because of chronic pain. […]
20/09/2010
Preventing slips and slips in the workplace
The HSE regularly display case studies of how some of proactive organisations in the UK are managing health & safety in the workplace. This month we feature Slips, Trips & Falls Did you know? Slips and trips are the most common cause of major injuries at work and can happen almost anywhere. 95% of […]
