Accident Prevention

Figures recently published give the number of accidents in factories and workshops in England and Wales in 1928, as 126,366, of which 578 were fatal. The action taken last autumn in response to official representations regarding safety-first arrangements by a number of important employers’ associations, however, has had good results and substantial progress was being made on accident prevention in the industries chiefly concerned. Commenting on the above figures and the progress of the accident prevention campaign now in progress in England, the Home Secretary observed that the outlook was distinctly encouraging and he hoped for a much fuller and wider development of this movement in the near future.