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Safety improves
11:27 10 Apr 2003
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Last year's dramatic reduction in construction fatalities was
achieved through a real improvement in site safety, according to
Contract Journal's readers.
More than three-quarters of respondents to the latest CJ Question poll, sponsored by Semple, said that they had noticed an improvement in site safety during the past two years, during which time the number of fatalities dropped 42% from 120 to 70.
Just 13% said they had not seen safety improvements.
It is not unusual for the construction industry's fatality figures to fluctuate year-on-year, but some optimistically feel the current downward trend has an air of permanence.
It will need to continue if the industry is to meet the pledge it made at the Construction Safety Summit in 2001. Clients and contractors committed themselves to reducing deaths on construction sites by 66% by 2010, which would mean no more than 40 fatalities a year.
More than three-quarters of respondents to the latest CJ Question poll, sponsored by Semple, said that they had noticed an improvement in site safety during the past two years, during which time the number of fatalities dropped 42% from 120 to 70.
Just 13% said they had not seen safety improvements.
It is not unusual for the construction industry's fatality figures to fluctuate year-on-year, but some optimistically feel the current downward trend has an air of permanence.
It will need to continue if the industry is to meet the pledge it made at the Construction Safety Summit in 2001. Clients and contractors committed themselves to reducing deaths on construction sites by 66% by 2010, which would mean no more than 40 fatalities a year.
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