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Workplace Accidents: Slips, Trips and Falls

As an employer, you are naturally concerned about the safety of your staff and visitors to your premises, as well as being legally responsible. Given that slips, trips and falls make up about a third of all workplace accidents, and are estimated to cost more than £300 million a year, it also makes good business sense to look at prevention. Our free Risk Management Guide clarifies your legal responsibilities and offers practical guidelines on preventing slips, trips and falls in your workplace.

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What’s in our Risk Management Guide on Slips, Trips and Falls?

This Risk Management Guide gives you clear, relevant information about the following:
  • What the law requires of you as an employer: from risk assessment to protective equipment and required practice.
  • Preventing slips, trips and falls: five steps to reducing the risk of these types of accidents in the workplace. This section includes information about identifying the hazards and people who could be affected; establishing suitable precautions; recording findings and reviewing the situation at regular intervals.
  • Good working practices: the practical approaches that can significantly reduce the risk of accidents in the workplace involving slips, trips and falls.
  • Links to further information.

Ensure that you are doing everything you possibly can to protect your employees and your business – download your free MORE TH>N BUSINESS Slips, Trips and Falls Risk Management Guidenow.

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