Sore sites: actions by both the construction industry and the Health & Safety Executive to improve the health of workers have been piecemeal and uncoordinated
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Much of the action by industry or Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to improve health and safety has been uncoordinated, particularly in the construction industry. Health issues especially have not received adequate attention because of the lack of ill health statistics, long latency periods and uncertainty about cause and effect. Health problems in the construction industry include musculoskeletal illness including work related upper limb diseases, respiratory diseases, and skin disease. Noise and vibration is responsible for occupationally induced diseases and asbestos is responsible for more deaths than any other single cause.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1995
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Construction time bomb
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Safety standards in the German construction industry were highlighted by the explosion of a buried bomb on a building site in Berlin, Germany, in 1994. The bomb was left over from the 1939-1945 war and companies working on government contracts have to carry out checks for such bombs, but not for private sector work. Many German construction companies are small, and many employees work in the informal sector with little control of safety. Attitudes tend to be short-term due to high levels of competition in the industry.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1995
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The honeymoon is over as enforcers step up construction safety regulations
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The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 (CDM) aimed to reduce construction industry accidents in the UK, and were implemented in March 1995. However accidents have continued in the industry and the HSE is expected to undertake a more stringent enforcement policy following a lengthy study of CDM at work.
Publication Name: Health & Safety at Work
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0141-8246
Year: 1996
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