Latest News - 06 October 2008

Teaching health and safety 'could cut workplace accidents'- 30/06/2008[top]

An MP has thrown his weight behind the idea that teaching health and safety could cut workplace accidents.

Michael Clapham, MP for Barnsley West and Penistone, is leading calls for a basic health and safety awareness course to be built into the National Curriculum.

Mr Clapham, who is chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health, is today hosting an event, supported by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), at the House of Commons to let MPs and peers discuss how to put such a plan into action.

On the guest list is health and safety minister Lord McKenzie of Luton and chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, Terry Rooney MP.

Mr Clapham said: "In the last decade, 64 young lives have been lost in needless workplace accidents.

"Over 15,000 other young people have suffered serious injury. These figures are a shocking indictment of some employer's attitudes to their workers - an attitude that isn't acceptable in the 21st century."

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