Suzy’s Charter for Workplace Safety launched

Today Suzy Lamplugh Trust is launching ‘Suzy’s Charter for Workplace Safety’ to help employers and employees make workplaces safer for everyone.

Today Suzy Lamplugh Trust is launching ‘Suzy’s Charter for Workplace Safety’ to help employers and employees make workplaces safer for everyone. Implementing the Charter’s simple steps can go a long way to ensuring that personal safety risks are identified and mitigated where possible. Suzy Lamplugh Trust has worked with a wide variety of organisations over the past year including unions, large and small businesses as well as the police and employees themselves, to create a charter that makes it simple for organisations and the people they want to protect to fulfil their obligations to keep workers safe. The NBCC are pleased to have supported the creation of the charter including the Stay Safe at Work Conference in the summer as we recognise the importance of safety in the workplace. The HSE estimates that 374,000 adults of working age in employment experience violence at work annually, including threats and physical assault. The human costs of personal safety incidents for employers are far-reaching and devastating and can also result in substantial economic costs due to loss of productivity, insurance claims, administrative and legal costs and health and rehabilitation costs. The loss of quality-of-life to the individual can be even more damaging, with ongoing impacts on health and wellbeing, loss of confidence and inability to return to the workplace. Suky Bhaker, Acting CEO, Suzy Lamplugh Trust said ‘It is unacceptable that anyone should face violence and aggression in any form whilst at work. We hope this Charter will help employees and employers create safer workplaces and we would encourage all organisations to work through the Charter a step at a time to make these important changes. Suzy Lamplugh Trust are ready to assist any organisation in the implementation of Suzy’s Charter.’ Patrick Holdaway, Operational Lead for the NBCC said ‘Understanding and tackling violence and abuse in the workplace is a key objective for the National Business Crime Centre. We welcome evidence based initiatives from within industry and the charitable sector to contribute to this vital work and support the efforts of Suzy Lamplugh Trust. They have brought together both employers, employees and respective unions to raise awareness of these issues and identify a charter to help minimise the risk of violence.’  More information about the charter is below and at https://www.suzylamplugh.org/national-personal-safety-day-2019-launch-of-suzys-charter-for-workplace-safety  Suzy’s Charter for Workplace Safety