Companies in Scotland will attend health and safety demo
Construction companies are being asked to attend a free event being hosted in Central Scotland. The event is about health and safety in the construction industries. It is part of a new protocol to get construction companies to take health and safety training seriously in order to avoid workplace accidents in the industry. The construction industry indicates that about 75% of workers that are injured or killed on building sites are from medium to small sized businesses. It is why these smaller companies are being asked to attend the event in Blackridge in June.
The HSE is working with the Working Well Together Campaign to raise awareness about safety and health. There are numerous parts to the event including how to manage ground work as this is where many are injured or killed. Working from heights is another large concern such as falling to one’s death or sustaining a major injury. In terms of ground work, many suffer injuries or death because pedestrians are in an area of moving vehicles and the driver may have a blind spot where they are unable to see the person walking. Trench work, working in confined spaces, and buried services are also going to be focused on. Trenches can also collapse, burying individuals alive. These issues are some of the most important in terms of making certain that fewer accidents happen on construction sites. The event is working to make sure that every business is aware of the dangers in order to correct them.
