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WASTE DISPOSAL & RECYCLING


commented: “We have had an excellent response from across the industry. Our task now is to harness the commitment and enthusiasm and move forward to develop a workable solution to improve employee engagement.”


Sarah Golemblewski, Health & Safety Manager at North Kesteven District Council, who attended the workshop added: “What really came across was the level of enthusiasm and engagement. To be in a room with so many people so committed to health and safety was really encouraging and the fact their companies and organisations sent them shows their level of commitment too. It’s clear that they all want to be a part of driving this forward.”


Paul Stokes, Head of SHEQ at FCC Environment UK continued: “In defining a new positive, proactive culture, we were all agreed that the safety agenda has to be driven, partly from the top, partly from the bottom, with improvements in relationships from top to bottom.”


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FATALITY & INJURY FACTS IN THE WATER & WASTE INDUSTRY


• In the past five years there have been 37 fatalities within the water & waste industry sector - 33 of them in the waste sector.


• Five of these were in 2014/15, all within waste.


• Nine involved individuals being struck by moving vehicles, and a further five through context with machinery.


• The sector accounts for 170,000 people; around 0.6% of the UK workforce.


• Fatality rates within the water & waste sector since 2010 have been between five and ten times higher than the ‘all industry’ rate, at 2.04 fatalities per 100,000 employees.


• In waste alone the rate in 2014/15 was 3.64 per 100,000 employees, fluctuating annually at between five and 20 times the ‘all industry’ rate.


• Every year around 6,000 workers in waste & water sustain a non-fatal injury at work– most (around 5,000 ) are among waste workers.


• Most long-term ‘specified’ injuries (70%)are caused by slips, trips or falls, falling from height or bring struck by an object.


• Lifting and handling are responsible for a third (36%) of over-seven-day injuries, and slipped, trips and falls 27%.


• More than 95% of the sector’s work days lost in a year through injury - averaging unto 145,000 - occur within the waste spectrum. This gives an average of 0.7 days per worker compared with 0.17 days across all industries.


• The waste sections account for more than 90% of days lost through illness across the watt & waste sector; unto 1.9 days per worker against 0.8 across all industry.


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