Changing attitudes needed in health and safety at work

Health and safety procedures are in place to protect workers from injuries not firms from law suits, one construction safety expert has claimed.

The Construction Centre.co.uk said that changing established cultures through more health and safety training for all would be the most effective way to reach a zero accident record.

Miscommunication between workers and employers is responsible for ineffective implementation of some health and safety procedures, stated the firm.

Richard Simmons, managing director at the Construction Centre.co.uk and a property developer for over 30 years, said “For too long site workers have assumed health and safety is about their employer protecting himself against a law suit, in reality it has never been about this.

He added that life has a higher value and it is about changing this attitude which will see a reduction in on site accidents.

According to figures from the Health and Safety Executive, in the last 25 years, over 2,800 people have died from injuries they received as a result of construction work.

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