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News Release from: Health and Safety Executive | Subject: Working Well Together Roadshow
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2005
2005 Construction Health And Safety
Roadshow
'Health and Safety Commissione launches construction industry's Working Well Together (WWT), 2005, health and safety roadshow.
Health and Safety Commissioner, Danny Carrigan, today launched the construction industry's Working Well Together (WWT), 2005, health and safety roadshow at a Persimmon Homes site in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland Continuing the success of previous roadshows, this year's five-week nation-wide tour will visit large and small construction sites, highlighting the areas of greatest risk to workers health and safety on site
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 30 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Speaking from the launch, HSC Commissioner, Danny Carrigan said: "The Working Well Together Roadshow aims to prevent injuries and ill health by delivering vital information and advice to construction workers on site and I am delighted to see so many companies continuing to make vital contributions to improving this industry's health and safety performance".
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"Construction is a dangerous place to work, last reporting year 72 construction workers died, 12 of those deaths occurred in Scotland.
Although this was the lowest national level seen on record, each death is still one too many, especially when most could have been prevented with sensible risk control.
"Construction is a killer industry, we must get these messages across to those who work in it".
At the launch, Health and Safety Executive inspector, Jim Skilling, responsible for health and safety on Scottish construction sites, joined Mr Carrigain.
Speaking from the site Mr Skilling said: "This site shows how much can be achieved by an enlightened client and a principal contractor with a positive attitude to health and safety and worker engagement, an important theme for this year's roadshow".
"The best clients, contractors and professionals in the industry are demonstrating that where worker engagement is adopted on sites, the incident rate for accidents, ill health and near misses falls dramatically".
This year the roadshow features interactive demonstrations highlighting the importance of safe lifting techniques, transport-viewing aids, safety harnesses and gives workers an opportunity to test their hearing levels.
Sponsored by HSS Hire, with additional sponsorship from Berkeley Homes, Bovis Lend Lease, Gleeson, Persimmon Group and Taylor Woodrow, the Roadshow is also supported by Federation of Master Builders (FMB), Scafftag, Constructing Excellence, Trades Union Congress (TUC), and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
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