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Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the total cost was of the recent Health and Safety Executive campaign targeting (a) back pain and (b) tripping accidents; [109508]
(2) what the total cost was of the recent Health and Safety Executive campaign to manage work-related stress. [109511]
Mrs. McGuire: The Health and Safety Executives initiatives on back pain, slips and trips and work-related stress are designed to contribute to the revitalising health and safety targets to reduce work-related ill health and sickness absence.
The Better Backs marketing campaign cost £2.5 million overall. This included the cost of advertisingin the national and trade press, on radio, online and outdoorplus the funding of Better Backs publicity events, production of information packs, and research and evaluation costs.
The Watch Your Step campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the causes and costs of slips and trips accidents at work, cost £1.7 million on advertising and event organisation.
For work-related stress, the current series of Healthy Workplace Solutions workshops has a predicted final cost of £627,000. This includes the cost of sending invitations to employers, processing responses, venue hire and speaker costs.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost was of the recent Health and Safety Executive Fit Out phase campaign. [109510]
Mrs. McGuire: The Fit Out campaign in October 2005, involved targeted national inspections looking specifically at the issues of low falls and housekeeping at construction projects that were approaching completion. This activity was supported by the production of a campaign poster and campaign infosheet.
Inspections were carried out largely within normal working hours incurring few additional staff costs.
Production and distribution of posters and infosheets cost £5,000.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many accidents have taken place on the premises of (a) the Health and Safety Executive and (b) the Health and Safety Commission since May 1997. [109506]
Mrs. McGuire: The number of accidents for the years requested are set out in the following table. The Health and Safety Commission has no premises separately from HSE.
Number of RIDDOR accidents( 1) on HSE premises | |
(1) This includes all accidents HSE is required to report under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. (2) For years 1997-2004 the primary source of information is the HSE annual health and safety report. The amount and substance of incident data in this report varies from year to year. After 2004-05 the data come from records held in HSEs human resources department. (3) For 1997-98 to 2002-03 it has not been possible to identify the number of accidents causing injury occurring on HSE premises, as the report forms used did not always indicate the location of the accident. |
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many accidents involving members of (a) the Health and Safety Executive and (b) the Health and Safety Commission have taken place since May 1997. [109507]
Mrs. McGuire: The number of accidents to Health and Safety Executive staff for the years requested are set out in the following table.
I am not aware of any accidents to members of the Health and Safety Commission while engaged on HSC business. The health and safety incident rates are low when compared with other organisations engaged in the type of work that HSE is involved in.
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 18 to 29, (ii) 30 to 39, (iii) 40 to 49 and (iv) 50 to 59 and (c) males aged 60 to 65 have claimed incapacity benefit in each of the last seven years. [101790]
Mrs. McGuire: The available information is in the following table.
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Eastbourne constituency are in receipt of incapacity benefit; and how many of these people have been in receipt of incapacity benefit for (a) up to one year, (b) one to two years, (c) two to five years and (d) over five years. [110390]
Mrs. McGuire: The information is in the following table.
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