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Safety Net Journal Issue 1 |
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A new recipe for safety
By Tony Larkin
A new version of 'Recipe for Safety' - the HSE-led campaign on H&S in the food industry - has been launched. This time the focus is on occupational health risks.
Recipe for Safety
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The Recipe for Safety campaign was launched in the early 1990s and has been a brilliant example of the benefits of trade unions, employers and the HSE working together. Over the last 10 years the accident rate for the industry has been cut by 26% - twice the national average. The wide availability of the original campaign document as a free HSE publication was important because it made it easier to spread the message. Usdaw is therfore concerned that the HSE has decided to produce the updated book as a priced publication as this will limit circulation. But the new Recipe for Safety is an important book with an important message. The focus on occupational health is particularly welcome. Food industry safety reps should ask their management to buy copies and get them discussed at their safety committees.
Priorities for the current campaign include manual handling and musculoskeletal injuries, workplace transport, falls from height, machinery, slips and trips,
occupational dermatitis, occupational asthma, noise-induced hearing loss, and work-related stress.
Copies of A recipe for safety: Occupational health and safety in food and drink manufacture, HSG 252, ISBN 0 7176 6115 6, price £9.95 can be ordered online at HSE Booksand are also available from HSE Books , PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2WA, Tel: 01787-881165 or fax: 01787-313995.
For a flavour of the guidance, the HSE have put the occupational health chapter of the new Recipe for Safety document on the food pages of the HSE website .
Source: HSE
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