Safety expert calls for improvements in north-west region

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Safety expert calls for improvements in north-west region Though the amount of work-related accidents in the north-west is falling, a health and safety expert says there remains plenty of room for safety improvements, Rochdale Online reports.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has stated that the region lost an estimated 3.5 million working days in the year 2008-09 to work-related illness and injuries.

In the north-west, the rate for fatal and major injuries was 110.5 per 100,000 people, which is below the national average of 125.7 per 100,000.

However, Jonathan Betts, partner of national law firm Irwin Mitchell, has insisted that more still has to be done to protect the safety and wellbeing of workers.

He told the website: "Although it is encouraging that the figures are decreasing, we are still looking at hundreds of thousands of people injured at work every year."

The construction industry suffers a disproportionately high number of fatalities each year and, as a result, the HSE implores people employed within the sector to use the correct workwear.ADNFCR-1200-ID-19736419-ADNFCR

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