Health and Safety Executive

Slip and trip accidents in the health services

This SIM details the second year of a two-year campaign on reducing slips and trips and provides information to assist inspectors undertaking visits looking at slips and trips issues as part of the targeted inspection programme in the Public Services Programme 2006/07 (PSP5). It also provides information on use of ‘The Publicity Pack on Slips and Trips for Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Other Health Care Establishments’ and references materials developed for the HSE Slips and Trips Watch Your Step campaign.

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