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Two-tier standards of construction industry safety management now emerging
At a meeting on 17th August 2011 the HSE Board will consider an update on the work of the it’s Construction Division (CD) and the future priorities for construction.
The update reports a significant finding concerning failure of the ‘trickle down’ strategy for securing improvements on smaller sites.
The report highlights the:
“emergence of an increasingly ‘two-tier’ industry: risks on large sites continue to be better managed, whereas similar improvements are not observed on many smaller sites.
There is minimal evidence to show that improvements on larger sites have trickled down to smaller ones, 60-70% of fatal accidents currently occur on small projects (less than 15 workers) whereas 10 years ago the reverse was true.”