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A safe environment is not one in which there is an absence or low number of serious injury incidents, but is the result of active participation by management and staff in identifying hazards and then doing something positive about them.

In other words, the absence of incidents is a negative measure largely dependent upon luck, whilst the identification then prompt elimination or control of hazards is a positive step and is essential to the discharge of our duties under current legislation.

Sir Desmond Fennel OBE QC
(Extract from Kings Cross enquiry report)