» Back to listing Why employers should pay more attention to health and safety

While it may be tempting to neglect health and safety measures and hope that accidents won't happen to you, statistics show that they probably will.  And when they do, the financial risks can be crippling both in terms of direct and indirect costs.

For example, the compensation amount for a minor eye injury doesn't usually exceed £8,000, but paralysis after a back injury is classified as a serious case and compensation can reach up to £151,000.  On top of this a number of employers consider the indirect costs as being negligble in comparison but in the long run they can actually exceed them.