Nowadays, many people want to keep working past 50. The state pension age has been put up, the default retirement age has been removed and life expectancy has gone up. Aside from the financial necessity for some people to continue working late into life, a lot of people just don’t feel old by the time…
Injury statistics According to the Health and Safety Executive approximately 120,000 people were injured at work from manual handling incidents last year. Over 30% of food and drink industry injuries reported to HSE are manual handling injuries such as back injuries, this represents around 1700 acute injuries per year. Manual handling injuries are caused by handling and…
137 workers were killed at work last year. The majority died as a result of defects in their work equipment. The legislation regarding maintaining work equipment is clear. Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 Regulation 5 – Maintenance of workplace, and of equipment, devices and systems 5 (1) the workplace and the equipment,…