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In the 1980s each year for every 100,000 industrial workers an average of 2.5 workers sustained fatal injuries.
Forty years on the average has dropped to an average of about 0.5 industrial workers sustaining fatal injuries.
Those health and safety rules and regulations, I mean, who needs them?
Workers who would prefer not to be killed at work perhaps?
It's a massive decline in injuries and deaths in the Construction industry:
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/history/index.htm
84% reduction in Construction Industry deaths since 1974 ... sadly .. the only massive increase is the notified mesothelioma deaths (ie: asbestos related) as the people who were exposed to that material are now reaping the rewards of an industry that didn't know/didn't care.
Health and safety STILL requires some common sense and some degree of personal responsibility but the paper trail (whilst laborious) has led the construction industry into thinking about how it's employees behave and how they are trained and certificated. I was there at the start and the battles I fought with the 'just get on with it' brigade were frustrating .. and the times when it went wrong was usually after 'I was just .. ' 'I just thought ...' 'I only had to ...' 'I was only ...' 'I didn't think it would ..'.. from my employees. It was an uphill struggle.
Ahhh. Here is the crux of the matter... some amount of paperwork prompts the thought that engenders safe working practice. However increasing the paperwork ad infinitum does not increases safety. Moderation and discretion are very elusive qualities. Moderate, well targeted paperwork is a boon, when it isnt it is a burden.
Yes ... when the health & safety gets taken over by people more concerned with the quality of the paperwork than the safety of the practice it becomes counter productive. I've seen Risk Assessments and Method Statements that are so wordy they are of no use to the poor sod in the front line trying to drill a hole in a piece of wood ...paperwork produced by a supposed H & S 'Professional' who didn't know a drill from a pencil sharpener.
Well said by you and Pargyle.In the 1980s each year for every 100,000 industrial workers an average of 2.5 workers sustained fatal injuries.
Forty years on the average has dropped to an average of about 0.5 industrial workers sustaining fatal injuries.
Those health and safety rules and regulations, I mean, who needs them?
Workers who would prefer not to be killed at work perhaps?
however, the random loss of concentration or mistake will occur. The thing is that irritates me is the "Make sure it never happens again" platitude. In a probabilistic universe .... sh*t happens! All we can do is make the gaps between it happening longer than last time and have a bucket ready.
however, the random loss of concentration or mistake will occur. The thing is that irritates me is the "Make sure it never happens again" platitude. In a probabilistic universe .... sh*t happens! All we can do is make the gaps between it happening longer than last time and have a bucket ready.
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