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The HSE has published the latest ‘full-year’ statistics on fatal injuries in the workplace.
The provisional figure for the number of workers fatally injured in 2012/13 is 148 and corresponds to a rate of fatal injury of 0.5 deaths per 100,000 workers. This is 18% lower than the average for the past five years (181).
The HSE Construction Division’s three-year plan aims to accelerate long-term improvements in the construction industry’s health and safety programme and ‘spotlights worker health’, according to Tim Hudson at Aegis.
On 1 October 2013 the updated Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) come into force.
The changes will simplify the mandatory reporting of workplace injuries for businesses, while ensuring that the data collected gives an accurate and useful picture of workplace incidents.
HSE construction inspectors are carrying out a major inspection and enforcement initiative targeting the refurbishment sector within construction.
The initiative started last week and will continue until Friday 27th September 2013. It will be similar in scope to interventions in 2006/07 and 2012/13.
Aegis is pleased to announce a new service – Ska Rating assessment. Operated by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Ska Rating is an environmental assessment method, benchmark and standard for sustainable non-domestic fit-outs and refurbishments. You can now commission a quality-assured assessment and certificate from one of Aegis’ RICS-accredited Ska assessors.
Are you one of the many employers considering hosting young people on work experience to coincide with school and college summer holidays? The HSE has published simplified guidance for employers on ensuring the health and safety of young people on a work placement.
A Rochdale bedding manufacturer has been fined £50,000 after a health and safety inspection found most of its machines were unsafe to use and one machine was wrapped with cardboard as the only way of protecting workers from the dangerous moving parts inside.
Tim Hudson, our technical director, has just returned from a short break in Spain. As many of you know, so enthusiastic is Tim about his work that even when he is supposed to be relaxing on holiday, he is still thinking about health and safety, as these holiday snaps illustrate.
Since BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) was introduced in 1990, it has grown in popularity as an aid to delivering environmentally friendly buildings. Last year alone, some 7,000 projects were assessed using BREEAM.