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12:00 am, October 8, 2008
Safety officials to carry out spot checks on Trafford Park

The Health and Safety Executive and Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council are to carry out spot checks at premises in Trafford Park in the hope of cutting the death toll from industrial accidents.

HSE officers and Trafford environmental health officials will do a week long series of checks at businesses starting next Monday, October 13.

They will pay special attention to the most common causes of accidents, including workplace transport, ladders and asbestos.

Businesses which are visited can expect advice on how to carry out a transport risk assessment and the importance of taking damaged ladders out of service.

During the past five years 10 workers have died in the Greater Manchester area as a result of industrial related incidents.

Partnership Officer for the North West, Anne Gregory, said: “Our hope is that we can prevent some of the serious and yet completely unnecessary incidents which the HSE and local authorities investigate on a routine basis. These incidents don’t just leave workers injured and unable to work; as the figures show, in some cases they can be fatal.”

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