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Citation
(2001), "News from the HSE", Structural Survey, Vol. 19 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.2001.11019aab.012
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
News from the HSE
Keywords Health, Safety, Fatalities, Asbestos, CDM regulations
Recent news from the Health and Safety Executive includes the following:
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Tragically, a massive rise in construction work fatalities the first six months of 2000 (62 deaths compared with 39 in the same period last year).
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A safety blitz over a three-day period last September in central London in an attempt to reduce scaffolding fatalities.
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A proposal to introduce a new duty to manage asbestos to be placed on those responsible for workplace buildings throughout the UK in both the public and private sectors. New technical guidance on surveying workplaces is being developed to support the proposed changes.
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Publication of its first-ever enforcement report, which names and shames hundreds of companies, organisations and individuals convicted of health and safety crimes during 1999/2000.
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New regulations, which came into force last October to ensure that legal duties on designers to build safety into a design, apply not only to a design prepared by them personally, but also to a design prepared by an employee or other person under their control. This amendment to the CDM regulations follows a decision in the Court of Appeal.