SMALL BUSINESS ILLITERACY
June 1st, 2001
BY DERIDRE MASONMANY health and safety leaflets are going over their targets' heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high, delegates at the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents health at work conference at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, heard.The point was made by Sandra Caldwell, head of the Health and Safety Executive's health directorate, as part of a paper on the HSE's risk communication programme and on new ideas for reaching people who otherwise are missing the health and safety message.The HSE has been ...
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