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The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE's) ground breaking series of mini-documentaries, shown on TV's Worksmart series, will be launched on video at the SHE Solutions Exhibition in Harrogate during the European Week for Safety and Health which begins on Monday, October 14.
Worksmart, which has so far been screened in the North West, South, South East and North East of the country, features real people talking about real experiences in the workplace involving loss of life, injury and ill health. Research on the impact of the programme in the North West shows a huge increase in the awareness of health and safety issues among workers in that region.
The 45-second programmes contain a wealth of stories that can be dramatic, humorous, moving, thought-provoking and even tragic. Each programme raises a health and safety issue and offers a solution based on the subject's personal experience. Stories have been grouped together to reflect work activities that carry the highest accident and ill health incidence rates across a number of industries and sectors including construction, agriculture, stress, and musculoskeletal disorders.
The Worksmart Video compilation ISBN 0 7176 2575 3 price £25.00 plus VAT can be ordered online at http://www.hsebooks.com or are available from HSE Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2WA, tel: 01787-881165 or fax: 01787-313995.
The Worksmart DVD compilation is available early November 2002, priced £25.00 plus VAT ISBN 0 7176 2579 6
: 0151 951 3450.
Call HSE's InfoLine, tel: 0845 345 0055
or write to: HSE Information Services, Caerphilly Park, Caerphilly
CF83 3GG.
Published on the HSE web site on 16 October 2002