Health & Safety Training Can Save Your Business Money

HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE Health and Safety within the workplace is an integral part of training to ensure a safe environment for employees. Each year workplace related injurics are accountable for avoidable accidents, which costs cmployers. WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS WORK RELATED INJURIES AND ILL HEALTH COSTSOCIETY 1000 800 £14 Billion 600 400 200,000REPORTABLE INJURIES OCCURREDDURING 2010/11,QUALIFYING A 3 DAY LEAVE OF ABSENCE. 200 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 YEAR 2 OUT OF 5 WORKERS The amount of accidents within a workplace is slowly declining. This is due to increased awareness and training. HAVE BEEN INJURED HOW DOES THIS AFFECT EMPLOYERS 26.4 MILLION WORKING DAYS HAVEBEEN LOST ON AVERAGE PER YEAR. AN AVERAGE 15 DAYSPERINCIDENT OF WORK RELATEDILLNESS OR INJURIES. 50% THERE WERE 912 OFFENCES PROSECUTED IN GREAT BRITAINBY HSE (INCLUDING 34 THROUGHTHE PROCURATOR FISCALINSCOTLAND), ANINCREASE OF 3% FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. 50% OF INJURIES/ ILLNESS RESSULT IN DAYS AWAY FROM WORK WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES DUTYHOLDERSFOUND GUILTY OF HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFENCES RECEIVED FINES TOTALLING £18.6 MILLION, GIVING AVERAGE PENALTIES ONCONVICTION OF £24,005 PERBREACH. 92% EACHYEAR THE AMOUNTOF EMPLOYERS PROSECUTED AND CONVICTEDINCREASESBY 4%. 92% of all convictions made against employers resulted in convictions. TO LEARN HOW TO AVOID PROSECUTION AND WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS VISIT www.lebreton.co.uk ACCIDENTS