Health and safety curriculum call

News | HSP
30.06.2008

The chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health has called for health and safety at work to be made part of the national curriculum to combat the number of young people killed when they enter the workplace.

Labour MP Michael Clapham has tabled a parliamentary motion calling for the curriculum to contain a health and safety element after it was revealed that 64 people under the age of 19 have died at work over the last decade, while 15,000 have suffered injuries.

"These figures are a shocking indictment of some employers' attitudes to their work," he said. "I want to see what the government can do to help prevent further loss of young lives."

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