Employers and unions have joined forces to try to cut down the number of workplace injuries and illness.
The drive was launched by the Confederation of British Industry and the TUC, which held a joint conference in London.
The TUC said 20,000 major injuries a year could be prevented and one third of a million days of sickness avoided if firms worked in partnership with unions to tackle health and safety issues.
Firms which had adopted a partnership approach had seen accident rates fall by more than 50 per cent.
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