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4 July 2006 - Warrington Construction Sites
can expect HSE Inspections in July
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are set to carry out their campaign on
construction site inspections this July in Warrington. They will be
concentrating their attentions on the significant risks that are responsible for
many of the 'serious and fatal accidents each year'.
The town of Warrington is undergoing significant construction activities from
the Golden Square redevelopment and the new bus station, to the new housing at
areas like Burtonwood.
HSE construction inspector Nic Rigby commented:
"During July many of the active construction sites in Warrington can
expect to be visited. The inspectors will be concentrating their attentions on
those risks that are responsible for the majority of the serious and fatal
accidents each year.
"Contractors need to be sure that they are managing the significant risks on
their sites, in particular those involving falls from height and vehicle
movements. There has been an improvement in the standard of good order on the
sites in the last year, but this also has to be maintained.
"If HSE's inspectors come across situations where there is a significant risk to
those working on the site, or to members of the public affected by it, they will
take action to ensure the problem is resolved.
"In many cases this will involve the service of enforcement notices that may
close the site down completely. On others, particularly where contractors have a
record of poor performance and they don't appear to have got the message,
prosecution may be more appropriate.
"I hope that contractors will take this message seriously and make sure that
health and safety issues on their sites are being properly managed at all times,
not only when we visit."
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