The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be part of the solution

Today, HSE starts a media campaign to ask organisations and members of the public to sign a pledge to support HSE’s new strategy, launched 3 June.

Workplace deaths and injuries have fallen over the last thirty years but more needs to be done. Last year, 229 people were killed at work, thousands more died of work-related illnesses and 137 000 injuries were reported.

That is why HSE is taking out a number of adverts in national, regional and specialist newspapers highlighting the new strategy: “Be part of the solution”.

HSE is asking for organisations and individuals to sign the pledge and:

• \\ Agree to play our part in reducing the numbers of work-related deaths, injuries and ill-health in Great Britain.
• \\ Call on employers to put health and safety at the heart of what they do and to take a common-sense approach to health and safety.
• \\ Commit to debunking myths around health and safety that trivialise the impact of injuries, ill health and deaths on individuals and their families.
• \\ Recognise the importance of health and safety in difficult economic times and the dangers of complacency.
• \\ Pledge to work with the Health and Safety Executive and its partners to Be part of the solution.

If you would like to be part of the solution and improve the health and safety of your workforce, sign the pledge here: www.hse.gov.uk/strategy/pledge