Site safety

[lutonlagerlout]

harry sheridan RIP
looks like another big firm wiggling out of it
LLL

[Tommy]

'In the last year 53 Construction workers were killed while at work, which equates to 1 a week'

Also, always gets me that it's always a JCB excavator that's involved, whether it's a fatality or a bank robbery, never a Liebherr or Volvo

[Tony McC]

The meejah tend to write "JCB" when they mean 'excavator', much as we all tend to say "hoover" when we mean 'vacuum cleaner'.

53 lads killed at work, but the HSE reckon 500 per year, that's 10 a week or 2 lads per working day, die as a direct result of long-term exposure to dust on construction sites. As we reach a point in time where dry cutting of paving materials has been commonplace for around 35 years, we're almost guaranteed to see more and more workers suffer ill health and worse thanks to them inhaling crystalline silica while cutting flags, block and kerbs.

Don't be a victim: use dust suppression.

[rab1]

personally think the next big things will be glass wool, you always cough after using it and as the boss said, dust from stihl saws. these will be the new asbestos of our generation ???