§ Mr. Michieasked the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will give the name of the independent outside organisation which will be evaluating the Manpower Services Commission accident statistics;
(2) what will be the terms of reference of the analysis of the Manpower Services Commission accident statistics; and what progress has been made on beginning research on this analysis.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonResearchers from the department of environment and occupational health at Aston university have been commissioned to examine accident reports held by the Manpower Services Commission that relate to injuries sustained by trainees participating in the youth opportunities programme.
The aims of the study are:
- —to identify any actions that organisations or individuals could take in the future to reduce the risk of accidents when young people are receiving their initial training and work experience.
- —to identify those comparisons between YOP data and national accident statistics which can be validly made within the constraints of the records available.
- —to establish if there is a relationship between the number of accidents and a particular stage of training or work experience.
134 - —to segregate the reports by the type of programme, and to classify and group both the accidents and the injuries under suitable headings, making comparisons, where appropriate, with nationally available statistics.
The research work began last month.