Workplace transport safety consultation

The Health and Safety Commission has launched a discussion document on workplace transport safety. Provisional figures for 2000-01 show that 99 people were killed in workplace transport accidents, 2,490 sustained major injuries and a further 5,857 were injured seriously enough to be off work for over three days. The most common types of accident were: being struck by, or falling from, a vehicle; vehicles overturning and materials falling from vehicles. The discussion document sets out areas that could be addressed to reduce the accident rate.

* Preventing workplace transport accidents (Ref. DDE18) is online at: www.hse.gov.uk/disdocs/dde18.htm or from HSE Books.