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(2001), "Health and safety news", Structural Survey, Vol. 19 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.2001.11019eab.005
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Health and safety news
Health and safety news
Keywords: Health and safety
Other recent initiatives by the HSE include an inspections blitz on London Borough of Camden construction sites, a safety bus taking life-saving messages to site workers starting in Glasgow and calling at major cities before finishing its journey in London during August 2001, and a free newsletter and "action pack" about the European Week for Safety and Health (w.c. 15 October). The HSE has also reported provisional statistics for 2000/2001 which indicate a 34 per cent increase in fatalities among Britain's workers. There were 295 deaths including 106 in the construction industry. In the same period the number of near fatal major injuries fell. Meanwhile, Wisbeach company English Brothers Ltd has been convicted of causing the death of gang-foreman Bill Larkman. The company was fined £30,000 plus £12,500 costs after pleading guilty to separate charges of corporate manslaughter and breaching health and safety law. Mr Larkman, 50, of Kings Lynn, fell eight metres through fragile insulation material while in the process of erecting a farm store near Wisbeach, on 29 June 1999.