FACTS

Safety Awareness Training for health and safety issues

1. Temperature, light and air conditioning.
2. Harmful surroundings and hazardous substances, like asbestos.
3. Manual handling.
4. Noise, sound exposure.
5. Slips, trips and falls.
6. Handling heavy machinery, tools, and equipment.
7. Workstation health and safety, like computers and other display screen equipment (DSE).

STATS

• In 2020, the latest year of available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4,764 workers in the US suffered fatal injuries in the workplace.
• Self-reported, non-fatal workplace injuries reached 441,000 in 2020/21.
• Work-related ill health kept 1.7 million people off work in 2020/21 and half of those were suffering from stress, depression, or anxiety.
• Last year, 822,000 workers reported that they felt stressed, depressed, or anxious.
• In 2020/21, there were 451,000 new cases of work-related stress, depression, and anxiety – an increase of 104,000 on the previous year.
• There were 470,000 cases of work-related musculoskeletal disorders last year.