Safety video aims to shock steelworkers

Good practice saves lives is the key message of a new video on safety for steel erectors produced by BNFL and the Sellafield construction contractors.

Safe Steel Erection covers the three main areas of concern to steel erectors wherever they are employed: working at height, lifting operations and falling objects.

Safe Steel Erection, now on sale nationwide, was produced for a Sellafield training course completed by all steel erection contractors working at the site. By appealing to the individual contractors to consider the risks they are taking, it carries a powerful message about the consequences to individuals who do not consider their own or their workmates' safety.

Muir Lachlan, the resident engineer at Sellafield, said: "The video dramatically simulates the consequences of good and bad safety practices showing why falls, falling objects and poor lifting operations are such a major source of death and injury on construction sites."