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With this year's Worker's Memorial Day being only 1 week away, Greater Manchester Hazards has issued a fact sheet detailing the level of death's in the UK as a result of bad or non existent health and safety practice. Word's will never be able to fully express the shock and pain of loved one going out to work and never coming back, having died a needless and premature death due to negligent and callous employers. The figures are shocking for the 21st Century: " Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that :2.3 million people are killed by work worldwide every year." The fact sheet points out that, "The HSE headline figure is that 241 were killed by work in 2006/07 but this only refers to workers (employees, 185, and the self employed, 56 ) killed in incidents reported to HSE. It does not include members of the public (369), those killed in work-related road traffic incidents (over 1,000) or in the seas around the coast (about 30). Neither does it include those killed by illnesses caused by work and so is a gross underestimation." With regard to the North West, the official HSE figures for 05/06 show: Deaths in incidents at work: Greater Manchester Hazards points out: "For the current year ( 2006/07) in the North West the HSE provisional figure for employees and self employed killed in incidents does not include, for example, the 7 workers killed in Morecambe Bay helicopter crash in December 2006, or Stephanie Davies killed by a bus when working as a ‘lollipop lady’ in Salford, September 2006." Whilst these figures are bad enough, 236,000 people in the North West believe their ill-health is caused or made worse by work according to HSE official figures. The full fact sheet can be downloaded in pdf form here Source: Greater Manchester Hazards Centre |
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