Most Common Accidents in the Workplace

Understanding the dangers of your environment helps you better recognise how to protect yourself. Keeping safe at work is about using common sense, being vigilant and having the proper and correct training for your job.

Here’s our list of the most common accidents in the workplace:

Falls, Slips & Trips

The most common of them all and equating to almost 36% (1) of all accidents reported in the workplace are falls, slips and trips. Reduce your company’s risk of these types of injuries by keeping vigilant at all times. Clearing obstacles from walkways will help  employees carry out their job safety and wherever or whenever there is a spillage conduct the correct health and safety procedure and clearly mark the potentially harmful location.

Being Struck By a Vehicle / Object

Having a clear and well understood health and safety procedure in your workplace where there are moving vechicals is of the upmost importance. Over half of all fatal injuries (1) occur because of: falls from height; being struck by a vehicle and being struck by a moving object. Not sure on how to implement this in your work place? Speak to us about our tailored business and policy consultancy.

Accidents Involving Machinery

Wherever machinery is involved, correct and proper training must be conducted. What’s more, training of machinery should be kept up to date and adhered to by proper health and safety legislation. Over 20% of all fatal incidents (2) recorded are due to accidents involving machinery.

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(1) Health & SafetyExecuative http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/kinds-of-accident.htm
(2) Health & SafetyExecuative http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/kinds-of-accident.pdf