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Slips, Trips and Falls
Slips, Trips and Falls are the most significant cause of major injury. According to the HSE, slips and trips is the single most common cause of major injury in UK workplaces, accounting for almost 11,000 major injuries each year and 27,000 over 3-day injuries.
In many cases, slipping or tripping leads to more serious consequences - such as falling from a height, collision with moving vehicles, scalding from falling pans of hot liquid, or injury from sharp work tools.
Most of these slipping and tripping accidents are reasonably foreseeable and could have been prevented by implementing simple control measures; for example many are caused by wet floors, which could have been sign-posted or screened off.
Legal Requirements
The general duty to prevent slips, trips and falls comes from the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The general requirement for slips, trips and falls, is given inthe Management of Health and Safety at Work 1999.
Barbour Resources
We offer a range of resources to help you create policy and communicate with the workforce, including regularly reviewed documents which provide technical guidance, and policy and risk assessment guidance.
FREE FactsheetPosted: August -
2010Concise information concerning identifying, controlling and managing the risk of slips, trips and falls at work.
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Other relevant Barbour resources available with a subscription include:
- Slips, Trips and Falls Checklist
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- Director's Briefing: Slips, Trips and Falls
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- Toolbox Talks (training slides and hand out)
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