"Recipe for safety" and Food and Drink Group
The Groups' activities reflects
the strategy set out within the HSE policy document
'Recipe for safety' plus a number of other high priority
subject areas.
'Recipe for
safety' started in the early 1990’s following the Health
and Safety Commission’s concern that injury rates in the food and
drink industries were too high.
The initiative has proved very successful and extends
to encompass most food and drink industries through the
Food and Drink
Manufacturing Health and Safety Forum. This Forum is
driving forward a range of priority health and safety issues to
further reduce the main causes of injury and occupational ill
health.
Forum members have subscribed to the Common Strategy
document which sets out actions each party will undertake to
further progress the 'Recipe for Safety' initiative.
Success of the 'Recipe for Safety' initiative
Since commencement in 1990/91 to 2009/10 the HSE recipe for
safety initiative has been credited with producing the following
improvement in accident performance:
- Fatal injuries per year figure has dropped by 60%.
- Total number of injuries has dropped by 35% (from 14,435 to
5,041).
- All-injury incidence rate has dropped by 50%.
- Major injury rate (broken bones etc) has dropped by 31% (since
1996 when RIDDOR 1995 came into operation).
- Manual handling injury rate dropped by 24% (and slips injuries
dropped by 13%) within a decade.
- Injury rate at 2 targeted groups of “high injury rate sites”
dropped by 33% and 50% (20 sites in each group).
- Similar injury rate reductions were achieved through management
and safety representatives working together at large production
sites.
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