Health and Safety Executive

Food and drink manufacture

Worker preparing food on a conveyer belt

The food and drink manufacturing industry actually comprises over 30 different industries. These range from slaughterhouses, sugar refineries and grain mills to malt manufacture and whisky distilling.

Shattered lives

More than 1,000 workers a month suffer a serious injury following a slip, trip or fall. The 2011 Shattered Lives initiative targets the food and drink manufacturing industries.

Shattered lives website


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Updated 11.05.12