HSE improve safety bulletin

Posted on March 12^th 2010

Workplace accidents are one of the biggest causes of injuries in the UK and it is the Health and Safety Executives job to enforce laws and regulation to help prevent them. It is for this reason that the HSE has now improved its safety alert system with the goal of reducing workplace accidents even further.

It is the responsibility of a company to provide warning signs and regulations for employees to prevent an accident from happening. The HSE have now improved their Safety Bulletin tool, which they use to provide companies about different dangers, which could be harmful to employees.

Judith Hackitt from the HSE said: "With this new and updated way of issuing safety alerts, we are initiating a better, joined up approach to sharing information that will help towards reducing death and injury at work. We are encouraged by the positive response we have already seen from a number of sectors, but we need to get all areas involved to maximise the benefits of this approach."

It is astonishing how many accident occur because of a missing safety sign, which would cost a company around £1 to purchase but ends up costing them thousands in fines.

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