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HSE update September 2016

• Liz Hunter 01463 723263
• HSE Inspector of Health and Safety
• Liz.hunter_at_hse.gsi.gov.uk

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Construction stats 2014-15
Nearly a third of MSDs are new cases
Update 43 construction fatals in 2015/16
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Non-fatal accidents 2012-2015
65,000 self-reported 5,414 employer reported
injuries
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Costs to UK construction sector 2014-15
1.2 million working days lost to ill-health 0.5
million working days lost to injury
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UK Construction Enforcement 2014-15

• 258 prosecutions (94 guilty)
• 1229 Improvement Notices
• 1900 Prohibition Notices

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82 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

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Recent 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

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Key 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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Update

• Manual handling project 2017-18
• - heavy blocks structural steel in
  refurbishment
• Audits of designers 2016-17
• Refurbishment fortnight 12-26 October 2016

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• 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
  lfare.htm