Slips Trips and Falls

The Health and Safety Executive has recently launched its Shattered Lives campaign to stress the serious consequences that slips trips and falls can have.

Slips trips and falls are the most common cause of accidents, accounting for around a third of major reported injuries, the biggest cause of injury to the UK workforce. Over a thousand people every month are seriously injured because of slips trips and falls from ground level alone.

Slips trips and falls can affect employees, customers, visitors and members of the public so anyone with responsibility for buildings or land should identify, assess and manage the associated risk. Those who own property and land have a responsibility to make it safe.

Compensation for slips trips and falls may not always be substantial but it will not reduce the seriousness of the injury. A similar fall may well find a young person relatively unharmed but be potentially life threatening to an older person with brittle bones.

To say that managing health and safety costs too much money will ultimately lead to higher costs in the long-term. Ensuring that significant risks are managed well is an investment well made. As the saying goes, if you think health and safety is expensive, try an accident!

At Alan Boswell Group, business insurance customers have automatic access to our in-house health and safety and risk management consultant. Please contact us for a free no-obligation business insurance consultation.