13-02-2008
HSE acts to reduce construction-related deaths
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced action to reduce the number of construction sector deaths.
In a drive that will affect the Dundee area, the HSE has confirmed plans to target for inspection the sites of those construction firms engaged in refurbishment work.
The HSE conducted a similar exercise during the summer of 2007.
"Our inspectors continue to be appalled at the willingness to ignore basic safety precautions. We will not tolerate poor standards and will take appropriate enforcement action," said Jim Skilling, the principal inspector for the HSE, an organisation created as a consequence of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
"Site safety should be paramount and the simple answer is that too many sites allow bad practices to continue."
Indeed, data released by the organisation shows that over the course of last year, a total of 77 workmen, such as builders or plumbers, met their deaths in accidents on construction sites.
