Hawthorn Safety Consultancy Limited

How many times have you heard:

"we have never had an accident here in the workplace?"

or

"we have been doing it this way for the past 20 years, why have we got to change now?"

Yet take a few moments to digest the following accident statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE):

Year 2005/6

212 fatalities
28, 605 major Injuries
117, 471 over-three day injuries