Asbestos, silica, wood and other dusts are commonly found on construction sites but are well known to be slow killers. The HSE estimates that annually there are around 8,000 work-related cancer deaths every year in the UK and the construction industry accounts for around 3,500 of these, with asbestos and silica the major causes. The...Continue Reading
The Construction Leadership Council has set out its recommendations for procurement reform, including a new form of contract. The report provides recommendations on how government, clients and the construction industry can develop a new approach to procurement. It has been produced by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC)’s business models and supply chains workstream. To get...Continue Reading
Latest statistics from the Health & Safety Executive show that there were 38 fatal injuries to construction workers recorded in the year to 31st March 2018, accounting for the largest share of any industry. This was in line with recent trends: over the past five years the average number of construction fatalities has been 39....Continue Reading
With 2.78 million people being killed worldwide each year by work-related injury or ill health, the new global standard can encourage “much-needed solutions”, according to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Organisations which adopt the standard – which has been four-and-a-half years in the making – will be required to have proportionate safety...Continue Reading
Today marks the second anniversary of the introduction of new sentencing guidelines for health and safety and other offences in the UK. It is two years since the implementation of the UK Sentencing Council’s Definitive Guideline for the Sentencing of Health and Safety Offences, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene Offences. In 2017 we...Continue Reading
CITB has had a contract for the past 20 years with the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) to provide card administration services, looking after customers and processing applications. Each year the CITB process more than 400,000 card applications and one million contact centre enquiries on behalf of CSCS. However, CITB has decided that it not...Continue Reading
More than 60,000 people working on infrastructure sites nationwide will stop work today in a bid to boost health, safety and wellbeing standards. Around 1,000 sites, office and production facilities up and down the country will halt work for two hours to take part in the Stop. Make a Change campaign. In the largest stand-down...Continue Reading
The latest Construction Skills Network report from the CITB predicts growth of 1.7% over the next five years, with 179,000 jobs to be created. But the positive figures are heavily dependent on three huge projects – Hinkley Point C and Wylfa Newydd nuclear power stations and High Speed 2 – starting main works on time....Continue Reading
The largest UK fines for health and safety incidents have increased substantially in the past year, with some of the biggest brands in business having to pay millions of pounds for failing to control serious risks to employees and the public. There were 19 fines of £1 million or more in 2016 – the largest...Continue Reading
More than three quarters of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals surveyed said there was a need to improve overall risk oversight in 2016. According to MetricStream’s global survey of 200 GRC professionals, which focused on the major challenges and trends affecting businesses such as geopolitical risks and cyber security, 76.2% of respondents cited risk...Continue Reading
