Foreword During RoSPA’s centenary year, we will be reflecting on the role that our pioneering charity has played as a proactive partner, delivering worldwide improvements in health and safety performance both within and beyond the workplace. We hope to gain greater recognition of the huge burden that accidental injuries place on hospital A&E departments. We will therefore continue to work with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in our joint ‘AlliancE’, to help reduce pressure on A&E through a greater focus on accident prevention. We need the health and safety community to recognise that accidents have a major impact on productivity. Accidents kill more children, young people and young parents than anything else. They are the biggest cause of death up to age 39, and indeed the biggest cause of preventable death up to the age of 72. Instead of a debilitating culture of risk aversion, we will be promoting an enabling culture of risk awareness / risk management to prevent accidents and the life-changing injuries that they cause. Our portfolio of training courses awards and consultancy services are underpinned by this message. We will be striving to improve global connections between organisations and individuals who recognise that accidents - and that includes work-related illness - don’t have to happen. Dr Karen McDonnell, CFIOSH, Chartered FCIPD, AIEMA, MSP Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser, RoSPA President of IOSH
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