EUROSTAT ACCIDENT STATS
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLNATIONAL work accident statistics are keenly examined by occupational health practitioners, but they do not enable the safety of British workplaces to be compared against other European countries; that is where Eurostat, the European Union's (EU) statistical agency comes in. It has been in the news in the past year, for mostly the wrong reasons, with a painful maladministration and fraud inquiry moving towards a difficult conclusion. But the institution will need to recover, because it has a big job ahead of it in the next few years and that is ...
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