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The eighth National Small Business Crime Survey conducted by the Small Firms Association, shows that 57% of firms having experienced an increase in crime in the past two years, while 34% of businesses have been victims of crime on at least one occasion during the same time period.


According to SFA Director, Patricia Callan: “The business community is under constant attack from planned professional criminality. There is an enormous psychological price being paid by business people as crime is now more organised, more professional, more ruthless and more pervasive.”


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According to research, deaths and injuries among UK-based migrant construction workers could be reduced if pictures were used in safety training


The project, commissioned by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and carried out by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), reveals that migrant workers’ understanding of building site health and safety improves when images are used in training. And from these results, IOSH is urging construction companies to include illustrations as standard in their safety training sessions.


Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that migrant workers in the


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construction sector are more likely to be fatally injured than those native to the UK. In fact, 6% of Britain’s 2.3million construction workers are migrants, yet they account for a disproportionate 17% of work- related deaths in that sector. Between April 2005 and March 2008, 25 foreign workers were killed in the UK construction industry.


IOSH executive director of policy Dr Luise Vassie said: “Despite the fact employers have a legal duty to make safety information understandable to all employees, these figures show that some construction companies can do more to make sure staff whose first language isn’t English know how to stay safe on-site.”


The statistics are as follows:


• 57% of firms have experienced an increase in crime


• 34% of businesses were victims of crime in the past two years


• 40% of respondents were victims of crime on three or more occasions


• Average cost per incident is €4,518


• Capital expenditure on crime protection for small firms is €2.02 billion


• 13% experience crime while travelling on business


The major forms of crime cited were as follows: Crime


Theft of stock Burglary


Criminal damage Theft of property Theft of cash Internal Fraud


Credit/Cheque card


2012 35% 32% 30% 25% 24% 10% 8%


Armed robbery/Syringe 3% Extortion


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FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS HSE Passport, the simple and cost effective health and safety compliance scheme for contract and temporary workers, is advising recruitment agencies to get their temporary workers and freelancers ‘Health and Safety Compliant’, prior to releasing them into the workplace.


Guy Schrecker, General Manager, HSE Passport said: “If an agency worker holds a recognised health and safety passport card , it presents many benefits; the


agency can offer placements straightaway, the client does not have to hold health and safety induction sessions and the temporary worker can take the passport from project to project. If recruitment agencies make it mandatory for every one of their temporary workers to hold a health and safety passport, it will make life a lot easier for the end client, removing the need for timely induction sessions.”


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2009 18% 11% 14% 10% 13% 3% 9% 1% 1%


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