Rospa calls for work accident decrease
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (Rospa) announced this week that health and safety regulations and enforcements in the UK need to be radically changed if work accidents and work injuries are to be stamped out.
Rospa stated that a “new dynamic” around work health and safety was needed, after the organisation attended the Health and Safety Executive’s consultation on Great Britain’s work force safety.
The business case for controlling losses that resulted from work accidents and ill health had also become stronger now that the UK was in the midst of a deep recession.
Rospa recommended that encouraging organisations to publish their health and safety performance would help the HSE better target their resources, and make better use of non-HSE professionals in investigations and remedial-programmes.
Tom Mullarkey, Rospa's chief executive, said: “The HSE needs to establish new and imaginative relationships with other key actors across the health and safety delivery landscape.”
Updated on 23/03/2009