Training cuts accidents at Mears Group: Course pioneers link with British Safety Council

摘要

Purpose: Describes an award-winning bespoke health and safety course that UK social-housing repairs and maintenance specialist Mears Group delivers to its 5,000 site-based employees. Design/methodology/approach: Examines the reason for the training, the form it takes and the results it has achieved. Findings: Details how the overall accident rate has fallen by 15 percent since Mears Group launched the health and safety course three years ago, while employee accidents have fallen 20 percent year on year. Practical implications: Explains that the one-day course covers: identifying and controlling risks; slips, trips and falls; control of hazardous substances; manual handling; working at heights; asbestos; and electrical safety. Social implications: Draws attention to the fact that more than 200 people are killed in Britain each year in accidents at work and over one million people are injured. More than two million suffer illnesses caused by, or made worse by, their work. Originality/value: Explains that the training represents the first time the British Safety Council has worked with a company to produce a health and safety course.