More than one in ten homes in Greater Manchester contains a dangerous health and safety hazard which could pose a serious risk of harm or death, shocking figures have revealed.
Experimental data published for the first time by the government has shown that across all of the region’s homes, almost 12 per cent had a ‘category one’ health and safety hazard. This encompasses nearly 140,000 properties.
This is the most serious category where a hazard poses a serious risk of harm, including death, permanent paralysis, permanent loss of consciousness, loss of a limb or serious fractures.
