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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Exemptions
No applications were received under the exemption provisions
of Section 46 of this Act.
Notification of Accidents
Notice of an accident in the prescribed form is required to be
sent to the appropriate enforcing authority if it occurs in any
premises to which the Act applies and causes loss of life or disables
an employee for more than three days from doing his usual work.
Each quarter a return is made to the Ministry of Labour.
All the 56 notifications received during the year related to nonfatal
injuries which were mostly of a minor nature. Each case
was investigated by the respective District Public Health Inspector
and advice was given where necessary. In only 7 cases was it considered
necessary to write to the firms concerned and the measures
suggested to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents were readily
implemented.
The reported accidents and their analysis for the year under review are summarises in the following tables:- Reported Accidents
| Workplace | No. Reported | Total No. Investi-gated | Action Recommended | No Action | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatal | Non-Fatal | Prose-cution | Formal Warning | Informal Advice | |||
| Offices | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | 5 |
| Retail Shops | — | 35 | 35 | — | — | 5 | 30 |
| Wholesale Shops, Warehouses | — | 5 | 5 | — | — | 1 | 4 |
| Catering Estab-lishments open to public, can-teens | 10 | 10 | — | — | — | 10 | |
| Fuel Storage Depots | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Totals | — | 56 | 56 | — | — | 7 | 49 |