WAT 9203 LTL Facilities Landscape 2024 FV - Flipbook - Page 8
08 | HEALTH & SAFETY
Understanding risk and common causes of accidents
Risk factors and considerations naturally vary between facilities; however, our
research identi昀椀ed several common themes.
Interestingly, time constraints featured in the
Slips, trips and falls also remain a signi昀椀cant issue,
top three on the list of risk factors, a signi昀椀cant
with just a quarter of respondents claiming they
increase from its seventh-place ranking in last
haven’t been affected by these in the last year.
year’s survey, suggesting that FM professionals
are feeling even more time-poor and so are
In fact, according to HSE, slips, trips and falls on
unable to dedicate the required resource to
the same level accounted for 32% of the total
facility management.
number of non-fatal injuries in the workplace
across 2022/23.
When it comes to the causes of incidents, over a
third (36%) said that the use of materials handling
equipment has caused an accident or near-miss
in their business in the last year, increasing to
43% for those in the warehouse and storage
sector and 40% of those in the production and
manufacturing sector.
REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
%
28
SAY EMPLOYEES AREN’T AWARE
OF POTENTIAL HAZARDS
ONLY
%
26
SAY A LACK OF MAINTENANCE
AND REPAIR DOES NOT POSE A
RISK TO SAFETY
%
33
SAY BUDGET CUTS HAVE POSED A
SAFETY RISK AT THEIR BUSINESS
OVER THE PAST YEAR
