Work-related injuries fall by 16%
Fewer hotel and restaurant staff are suffering injuries at work, according to statistics from the Health and Safety Commission.
Its provisional figures for the 12 months from April 1999 to March 2000 reveal a 16% drop in the number of employees who reported a major injury. Cases fell to 779, from 923 the previous year.
The level of less-serious injuries requiring at least three days absence from work declined by 10% to 3,103 cases, from 3,427 in 1998/1999.
However, there was one fatality, as there had been the year before.