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Contents
3 Introduction
4 Why is health and
safety important?
6 Slips and trips
8 Manual handling
10 Fire
12 Stress
14 Display screen equipment
16 What next?
Introduction
1
4.
2b
n
Cost
Days lost
Workplace injury and work-related ill health
account for 28.2 million working days lost
annually.
23.5m
4.7m
Due to
ill health
Due to
injury
11.3m
Days lost
due to
stress
8.3m
Due to
musculoskeletal
disorders
Manual handling
Fire
He
e
Fu
at
Oxygen
O2
10
11
Stress
12
13
Display screen
equipment
14
15
What next?
No-one should
be injured or
made ill at work.