It is a 10-year strategy to improve health and safety at work, launched jointly by the government and Health and Safety Commission on 7 June 2000. It contains three elements: a set of improvement targets for Great Britain, a 10-point strategy and 44 action points to improve health and safety.

• To inject new impetus into the health and safety agenda
• To identify new approaches to reduce further rates of accidents and ill health caused by work
• To ensure that our approach to health and safety regulation remains relevant to the changing world of work over the next 25 years
• To gain maximum benefit from links between occupational health and safety and other government programs
• Link to HSE revitalising Health and safety site http://hse.gov.uk/revitalising

• Falls from height - 2004/05 53 people died and nearly 3800 suffered serious injury as a result of a fall from height in the workplace
• Musculoskeletal Disorders - These affect around a million people in Britain and cost society £5.7 billion
• Slips and Trips - The most common cause of of major injuries at work. They occur in almost all workplaces, 95% result in broken bones

• people being hit by vehicles
• people being hit by vehicles
• objects falling from vehicles onto people
• vehicles toppling over