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News Release from: Pivotal Training | Subject: Working at Height legislation
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 June 2005
Concern over Working at Height
legislation
Most companies are not looking forward to the introduction of new Working at Height (WAH) legislation, according to new research conducted by Pivotal, the UK's leading provider of safety training.
Most companies are not looking forward to the introduction of new Working at Height (WAH) legislation, according to new research conducted by Pivotal, the UK's leading provider of safety training Pivotal conducted a survey last month amongst its clients, asking how confident companies were with the introduction of the new WAH legislation, following the laws coming into force in April
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 13 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Thirty seven percent of companies questioned responded that they were nervous regarding the new WAH legislation, and a further 19% listed themselves as neutral.
In fact, only 44% of the companies questioned were feeling either confident or comfortable with the impact of the new WAH laws.
Darren Gamage, sales and marketing director at Pivotal, commented: "This says it all - 37% of companies across a range of industries are feeling nervous about the introduction of the new WAH laws.
This means quite simply that there hasn't been enough education about the change in legislation.
"Government and industry bodies should be responding by highlighting this issue.
It won't be long before one of the big construction companies makes a mistake with their WAH policy, and now, with the new laws, it will hit them really hard.".
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