Slips, trips and falls cause nearly one in three large personal injury claims

The UK P&I Club is publishing a series of “Risk Focus” booklets which highlight specific areas of risk. Last month (APR) saw the publication of “Risk Focus: Slips, trips and falls”. Analysis of previous incidents for the past 23 years has enabled the Club to identify “threats”, “consequences” and “controls”, the foundations of developing reports on specific vessels. In total, the Club’s risk prevention director Karl Lumbers estimated it had identified seven primary risk hazards, 76 common threats, which if not contained could cause an incident and 450 controls which need to be in place and effective if the threats are to be contained.