HSC wants more checks
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• Transport bosses will be expected to investigate all reportable work-placed accidents, ill health or "near misses" if tough new health and safety proposals are adopted.
The Health and Safety Commission has launched a consultation on its proposal to introduce a legal requirement for all companies and organisations to:
III Investigate all reportable incidents to find out how they happened and how they might be prevented in future;
• Keep a record that an investigation has been carried out and that its conclusions have been taken into account in revising the workplace risk assessment—these records would be kept for a minimum of three years.
The consultation will also ask if the proposal should be extended to non-reportable accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences.
HSC chair Bill Callaghan says: "By investigating incidents, identifying the causes and taking effective steps to remove those causes. employers can prevent repeat incidents and cut the human and Financial cast dramatically."
Provisional figures from the HSO for 1999/2000 show that there were 216 workrelated deaths and more than 181,000 workrelated injuries in Britain's workplaces.