Title: HSE%20update%20September%202016
1HSE update September 2016
- Liz Hunter 01463 723263
- HSE Inspector of Health and Safety
- Liz.hunter_at_hse.gsi.gov.uk
2Construction stats 2014-15
Nearly a third of MSDs are new cases
Update 43 construction fatals in 2015/16
3Non-fatal accidents 2012-2015
65,000 self-reported 5,414 employer reported
injuries
4Costs to UK construction sector 2014-15
1.2 million working days lost to ill-health 0.5
million working days lost to injury
5UK Construction Enforcement 2014-15
- 258 prosecutions (94 guilty)
- 1229 Improvement Notices
- 1900 Prohibition Notices
682 Notices issued April-June16 at Scottish
construction sites
- Majority falls from height
- COSHH 10
- Demolition 7
- Asbestos 4
- Machinery guarding 4
- CDM 3
- Excavations 2
7Recent construction prosecutions
- Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission PLC HSWA
1974, S.3(1). Fined 133,000 electrocution of a
linesman - DE Mackay (Contractors) Ltd - HSWA 1974, S.2(1).
Fined 17,500 fall into an inadequately
protected manhole
8Key topics for improvement
- Avoidance of manual handling
- Fire precautions
- Assessment of HAVS noise reduction
- System for managing temporary works
- Thorough examination test LOLER
- Maintenance of LEV
- Edge protection at excavations
- Welfare
- Refresher training for persons that erect
scaffolding required if no knowledge of SG410
(now SG415)
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12Update
- Manual handling project 2017-18
- - heavy blocks structural steel in
refurbishment - Audits of designers 2016-17
- Refurbishment fortnight 12-26 October 2016
13- http//www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg408.pdf
- http//www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/construc
tion/construction.pdf - http//www.hse.gov.uk/construction/safetytopics/we
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