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Industry set to down tools in H&S initiative

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  1. When I talk about well being and other health and safety factors, I usually have a site based audience. The change needs to happen in the board room downwards, nice sentiments, but the people on the ground need support from the higher chain, from experience, to make it happen.

  2. All these big firms like to pay lip service to Health and safety not so much to the well being of the work force. If it is going to cost the shareholders a drop in their dividends then I know who will lose out.
    Currently bricklaying is still in the stone age as far as improvements to working conditions are concerned and getting worse.
    For years now I have not seen an H&S inspector actually come up on to the scaffolding and engage in conversation any of the workforce as to how they perceive their day to day problems carrying out their work, the biggest of which is actually the scaffolding.
    It may be fine to look at sturdy and strong (in most cases if it hasn’t dropped because the guns they use have not got enough torque) but as a platform to produce work fit for the NHBC it is usually a non starter forcing men to become contortionists laying the foundations for muscular skeletal problems in later years forcing an already dwindling work force from the industry earlier due to the industry not looking after their well being but their bank balances.

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