Good engineering design can cut work-related deaths

摘要

Steps to promote good engineering design to help cut the death, injury and disease toll in Britain's workplaces, and enhance public safety, are outlined in a policy paper launched on 12 December by an influential group of safety and industry bodies. Parliamentarians, industry leaders, academics and senior engineers gathered at the Palace of Westminster to launch The business case for engineering in health and safety, a paper produced by the Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety (IIG), and held by IOSH. In 2012-13, nearly 150 people were killed at work in Great Britain, and an estimated 175,000 were seriously injured. This is the sad human cost of avoidable health and safety failures.