People over 65 have half as many accidents at work as their younger and more careless colleagues.

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There was also a 15% fall in the number of personal injury cases brought before the courts last year, at 7, 792 - 59% of which related to road accidents and 22% resulted from accidents at work.

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It promises to introduce information campaigns on how young people in particular can avoid accidents, and work with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to look at new ways of delivering accident-prevention messages.

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Some safety yardsticks have not improved in many years, while recent accidents and incidents have exposed areas that still need work: safety on the ground at airports, the training of pilots to handle sophisticated computers, and greater awareness of flight hazards in some developing countries.

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