Incentive to improve safety training
April 1st 2008 SGB Hire and Sale has
introduced a highly
responsible new training
initiative – the Hire
Education Campaign –
which has been designed
to reinforce the HSE's
'Shattered Lives'
promotion.
Fatalities in
construction increased
from 60 to 77 during
2006/07, where the
single largest cause was
falls from height. In
addition more than 1,000
workers every month are
seriously injured as a
result of a slip, trip or fall
at work.
Dr Elizabeth Gibby, head
of the Injuries Reduction
Programme, HSE said, 'Each
year slips, trips and falls
cost the British society
nearly £811 million pounds.
But what these figures don't
reflect is the extent to
which these injuries affect
individual workers and their
families. 'Shattered Lives'
will encourage people to
change their attitudes: if
you spot a hazard, don't
assume 'somebody else will
sort it out'.
As one of the UK's leading
specialist in safe work at
height solutions – and one
of the largest access
equipment suppliers – SGB is
providing the incentive for
its customers to provide
more skills and competency
training in the use of access
equipment, through this new
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