Health & Safety

Being Safe is Always Best

With its largely itinerant workforce, construction is a complex industry in which the task of maintaining acceptable levels of health and safety is always a challenge.

Health and safety is constantly at the top of the agenda and much is being done to address the industry's failings and cut the risk of injury or death on site.

Once it was a simple matter of legislating for every eventuality, a futile task. Rules and regulations forbidding one activity or compulsorily enforcing another cannot cover all eventualities and can quickly become oppressive and counterproductive. Today's approach is more subtle, using persuasion and psychology to tackle the behavioural factors that lie at the root of hazardous activities.

January 2008