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Head of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Judith Hackett, has visited various work premises in Blackpool recently and has delivered a message of continued vigilance to stop accidents at work.
Statistics show that workplace accidents still claim around 200 lives a year and around 100,000 people receive personal injury.
Ms Hackett said, "One injury is one too many – we really do want to drive those numbers down. It's down to employers to provide safe workplaces, but also down to employees to do the right thing.
"We still have people falling off ladders and off scaffolding or steps and people being hit by forklift trucks.
"But these are all things that can be avoided. It's about taking simple steps that can stop these things from happening."
A new North West HSE initiative has been instigated to raise awareness amongst young workers about the risk of asbestos in the workplace.
Ms Hackett said young tradesmen, particularly those aged 18-30, tend to think of asbestos as a problem of their father's generation.
Regarding accidents at work she added, "It's always a sobering thought to me that every day in the workplace, 400 families will not see someone come home that night because they end up in hospital."
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