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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Waste and recycling injury rates 'still too high'  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is launching a bid to cut the number of injuries sustained by people in waste and recycling jobs, in an effort to cut deaths and the potential for a workplace accident compensation claim. Fatal and major injuries are more than four times more prevalent in the waste and recycling industry than across all other employment sectors, the HSE warned. In 2009/10, there were 530 major injuries in the industry, including amputations and broken limbs. Provisional figures indicate four workers killed in 2009/10, while three members of the public have died as a result of work activities in the sector over the same period. HSE head of manufacturing Geoff Cox commented: "We are encouraged that there have been fewer deaths and injuries in waste and recycling, but the injury rate, which is stubbornly consistent with that of the previous year, paints a stark picture of how much more needs to be done." Meanwhile, the HSE is behind a new apprenticeship scheme to make young workers more aware of the dangers of asbestos. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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