Slips and trips

Article Abstract:

Slips and trips cause 33 percent of all reported minor injuries and contribute to 20 percent of over-three-day injuries and two fatalities per year besides cost to employers of over 350 million pounds sterling and human cost which is incalculable. Poor housekeeping causes most of the trips while slips occur in wet or contaminated conditions, which can be prevented by identifying the eight measures suggested to control them.

Author: Waterman, Lawrence
Publisher: Tolley Publishing Company Ltd. (UK)
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 2004
Prevention, Falls (Accidents), Accidental falls

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Back to basics

Article Abstract:

Health and Safety is a professional practice that is represented in U.K. by a specialist organization (IOSH) with over 25,000 members and it involves engineers, ergonomists and others with a wide variety of competencies. Simple, technical issues form asbestos to fire protection is presented in order to discuss the basic framework of good health and safety practice.

Author: Waterman, Lawrence
Publisher: Tolley Publishing Company Ltd. (UK)
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 2004

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Subjects list: United States, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health
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