The Health and Safety Executive has been running a campaign to reduce slips, trips and falls in the workplace.

Throughout 2008-2009, across the Education sector in the UK, there were...

  • 0948 major injuries and a further
  • 1865 that resulted in workers having to take more than three days off work as a result of slips, trips and falls
- resulting in costs in excess of £60million.

In response, the HSE has launched a new phase of its Shattered Lives campaign. As part of this, you can visit the Shattered Lives website for practical advice and guidance.

On the Shattered Lives website, visitors can find information on how they can easily reduce the risk of slips, trips and falls in the classroom and see what other organisations have done.  Advice ranges from how to deal with spills and other slip risks, to the importance of using ladders correctly to reduce the risk of falling from height.

The Slips and Trips eLearning Package (or STEP for short) is a great introduction to slips and trips, how they are caused, why preventing them is important and how to tackle them.

Visit http://www.hse.gov.uk/shatteredlives/index.htm for the Shattered Lives website, http://www.hse.gov.uk/shatteredlives/tools.htm for the eLearning & Tools and http://www.hse.gov.uk/slips/step/start.htm for the Slips & Trips eLearning Package.