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Health and safety in the manufacturing sector

The UK manufacturing sector comprises a range of diverse industries and employs over 3.2 million workers. In 2007/8 it reported over 25,900 work related injuries to HSE. This includes over 5200 major injuries of which 35 were fatalities.

Man inside a kilnCement

Stack of platesCeramics

Concrete bridgeConcrete

Coil of wire Engineering

Glass building Glass and glazing

BrickworkHeavy clay & bricks

Fabrics Laundries and dry-cleaning

Leather shoeLeather and footwear

Surface engineering plantMolten metals

Welding arcMotor vehicle repair

Rolls of Paper

Plastic pipesPlastics

Printing machinePrinting

Tracked vehicleQuarries

RefractoriesRefractories

Multi coloured rubber bandsRubber

Stone dust coming out of a pipeStonemasonry

Surface engineering plantSurface engineering

Sewing machine needleTextiles

Dustbin wagon and operativeWaste and recycling

Log pileWoodworking