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The Environment - everyone's concern

March 2003
Sheila Pantry, OBE

From everyone's point of view our environment must be well cared for. In particular we need to make sure that our industrial activities do not pollute the world around us. Quite often people do not realise that their work may affect the air we breathe, the water we drink and enjoy for recreational purposes and the trees, plants and countryside around us.

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Hope you have a zero accident and incident-free year in 2003 in your workplace.