EU launches health and safety website

The European Union has launched a new website on occupational safety and risk prevention to help reduce the number of occupational accidents.

In Germany, more than 840,000 workplace accidents were reported in 2003/2004, according to national statistics. In France it was 1.5 million, while in Britain there were 130,000 work-related injuries over the same period, according to a survey by the national health and safety authority.