The following pages indicate recent health and safety performance of the waste management and recycling industries and the activities of some member organisations and individual companies in reducing the risks encountered in the industry.
They show how the major causes of injury in the industry and how the industry compares with others.
They indicate current concerns, and practical methods used by some employers to act in reducing risks and improving their own health and safety performance.
Finally, there is commentary on a joint HSE/Central Office of Information exercise in using selected communication routes to get the health and safety message across to both staff and householders.
