Public Services Group

Through our membership of the Health and Safety Executive's Slips and Trips Stakeholder Group, we're currently supporting the HSE in understanding how stakeholders are dealing with slips and trips.

We're surveying IOSH members over three years to better understand current awareness, attitudes and practice, and to track what impact HSE initiatives are having. A joint HSE-IOSH report from the first survey will be available on the IOSH website soon.

In the meantime, here's the latest from the HSE:

Stop slips in kitchens

Last year alone 1,863 people working in the catering and hospitality sector received an injury that kept them off work for more than three days. Over the next 12 months, the HSE will be raising awareness of the causes of slip accidents in kitchens and how to prevent them.

You can download copies of promotional materials now at the HSE website.

Watch your step in education

Over half (55 per cent) of all accidents in education are caused by a slip or a trip. The HSE is running workshops around the country for those responsible for health and safety in higher and further education and for local authority health and safety advisers for schools.

You can download copies of promotional materials and information leaflets now at the HSE website.

Slips and trips in the cleaning industry

Cleaning is a key factor in controlling slips and trips. This year, the HSE and local authorities will be raising awareness on the dangers of incorrect floor cleaning regimes that lead to slip and trip accidents. The HSE is holding a series of free half-day seminars across the country aimed at managers, supervisors and cleaning staff. 

You can find out more at the HSE website.

E-bulletin

You can sign up to receive regular updates about slips and trips from the HSE.

Register at the HSE website.

Risk mapping tool

HSE has produced a simple guide to help people identify potential slip and trip hazards at work. Designed primarily for safety reps, the mapping tool can equally easily be used by managers, supervisors and safety professionals.

Go to the HSE website and scroll down to 'tools'.