New drive to make workplace safer

With 22 people killed in vehicle-related accidents at work last year, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has launched a campaign targeting businesses’ transport operations and vehicles at work.

The two-week nationwide inspection and awareness campaign will see HSA inspectors targeting transport and logistics companies, manufacturing premises, waste and recycling facilities, distribution centres, and warehousing centres.

The HSA pointed out that over the last six years, just under half (45%) of all reported work-related fatalities involved vehicles.