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News Release from: Scottish Building Federation | Subject: Fatal injury rate drops
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 September 2005
UK construction industry fatal injury
rate drops
The UK construction industr has welcomed Health and Safety Executive statistics which show that the industry's fatal injury rate has fallen significantly.
The UK construction industry, which is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its employees, has welcomed Health and Safety Executive statistics which show that the industry's fatal injury rate has fallen significantly, continuing the downward trend of the past four years Across all sectors which the HSE enforces, the number of fatalities was 220 in the year 2004/5, down from 236 the previous year
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This also continues a downward trend.
Within the construction industry itself, there were 72 fatal injuries, one more than the previous year.
But because of the greater number of workers employed in the buoyant sector, the fatal injury rate was down by 3% to 3.48 per 100,000 workers.
This is the lowest rate on record for UK fatalities.
In Scotland, however, a number of individual accidents have pushed the fatal injury rate upwards to 7.3 per 100,000 workers.
Eleven deaths were recorded in Scotland, up from only one the previous year.
Jim Purdie, Health and Safety Convener of Scottish Building, the employers- organisation, said: "Each individual death is a tragedy, which people within the industry regret deeply.
That is why we have invested so heavily in recent years in safety provision and training to provide the best possible working environment.
"It is heartening to see that the fatal injury rate for the UK as a whole is at a record low, but the rise in Scotland is disappointing.
I know that our members and their employees will redouble their efforts to make every construction site a safe site.
That is the goal of everyone within the industry.".
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