Two years since last quarry or mine fatality

摘要

STATISTICS released last month show that Great Britain is still one of the safest places in the world to work with the lowest number of deaths on record. The annual report by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) shows that 111 workers suffered fatal injuries at work in GB in the 2019/2020 period, whilst around 693,000 workers sustained non-fatal injuries and 1.6 million workers were suffering from work-related ill health. Moreover, although the rate of fatal injury in mining and quarrying continues to be around four times as high as the average rate across all industries and broadly similar to that seen in construction, the report notes that there have been no fatalities in the mining and quarrying sector in either of the last two years.