Safety for all-comers

摘要

AS OPERATIONS COME UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE TO WORK FASTER TO MEET SHORTER LEAD TIMES, PETER WARD UKWA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE - LOOKS AT HOW THESE CHALLENGES CAN BE MET WITHOUT COMPROMISING SAFETY. We must never let up our resolve to do all we can to make our industry as safe as it can possibly be. The Health & Safety Executive Statistics 2013/14 tell us that some 23.5 million days were lost due to work-related ill health and 4.7 million due to workplace injury. The cost to the country was an estimated ￡14.2bn in 2012/13. Zooming in on injuries in the logistics sector, the statistics reveal that the Transport and Storage sector was amongst those industries that had statistically significantly higher rates than for all industries.