ABSTRACT

The principles which were laid down in the many Acts of Parliament and the regulations that we have already looked at, control our working environment. They make our workplace safer, but despite all this legislation, workers continue to be injured and killed at work or die as a result of a work-related injury. The number of deaths has consistently averaged about 200 each year for the past 8 years. These fi gures only relate to employees. If you include the self-employed and members of the public killed in work-related accidents, the numbers almost double.