Construction industry urged to ensure basic health and safety measures in place


The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has found 40 per cent of construction sites failing to properly protect workers in one month.

And now the HSE is urging the construction industry to ensure basic health and safety measures are in place.

Unacceptable conditions and dangerous practices were found at nearly half of the 1,748 repair and refurbishment sites visited by HSE inspectors.

And 1 in 5 sites were so poor, formal enforcement action was required.

In Lincolnshire, 57 contractors were inspected across 39 different sites.

And four Prohibition Notices were served on sites where working practices were deemed so dangerous, that work has to be halted immediately.

HSE's Chief of Construction Philip White, "The inability to properly plan working at height continues to be a major issue, despite well-known safety measures being straightforward to implement.

"It is just not acceptable that inspectors had to order work to stop immediately on over 200 occasions because of dangerous practices.

"We also find health is often overlooked as its implications are not immediately visible, however the effects of uncontrolled exposure to deadly dusts such as asbestos and silica can be irreversible.

"We urge industry to ensure the most basic of measures such as use of protective equipment and dust suppression methods are put in place to help protect the future health of workers."

Thirty five per cent of the notices served were for issues such as management of asbestos, failure to control exposure to harmful dusts, noise and vibration, and insufficient welfare.
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