The Health and Safety Executive has called on business to place safety atop of the agenda in 2014 as new figures show two workers lost their lives across the North East in 2012/13.
Steve Smith, HSE’s head of operations for the North East, said: “The families of those workers in the North East who lost their lives last year had to face Christmas without them and hundreds of other workers have had their lives changed forever by a major injury.”
The latest provisional figures show that the number of deaths across Great Britain fell during the past year, with 148 people killed at work, compared to 171 deaths during 2011/12.
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