Workplace health and safety
It has to be faced, our industry has a poor safety record. Transport, postal and warehousing is rated the second most dangerous industry to be working in and records the worst numbers of accidents and fatalities, 54 deaths in 2017 – an increase of 15 per cent on the previous year – and 8,330 serious injuries.
“Anyone working in or around vehicles is most at risk,” says Graham Cooke, insights manager at , the organisation that compiled these statistics.
