{"id":92686,"date":"2021-04-28T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=92686"},"modified":"2021-04-28T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T11:05:20","slug":"working-at-height-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/working-at-height-breaches\/92686\/","title":{"rendered":"Work at height breaches soar by 84% on construction sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Working at height breaches on construction sites have risen by 84% in the first quarter of 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsgltd.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Safety Group<\/a> (BSG)<\/h2>\n<p>BGS\u2019s report is a cause for concern as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/work-at-height-regulations\/38573\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working at height<\/a> remains the biggest danger for construction workers.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Health and Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE) in 2020 show that almost half of all construction accidents (47%) were from falls from height. There were 40 fatal injuries in 2019\/20, slightly up on the 5-year average of 37 per year. 29 of these fatalities were due to falls from height.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60% of deaths during working at height involve falls from ladders, scaffolds, working platforms, roof edges and through fragile roofs.<\/p>\n<p>BSG\u2019s latest figures were obtained following 4,300 independent site inspections that took place between 1 January and 31 March this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92692 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites.jpg\" alt=\"working at height,\" width=\"788\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites-696x322.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Work-at-height-breaches-soar-by-84-on-construction-sites-610x283.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>\u2018The most dangerous construction activity\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/health-safety-working-at-height\/57619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Working at height<\/a> is clearly the most dangerous activity carried out in the construction sector,\u201d said Andy Harper, technical support manager at BSG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can all do more to ensure that work is properly planned, supervised and conducted by qualified workers who have the required skills for the job in hand. Having the correct control measures in place and assessing the risk is also essential for avoiding accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, companies should try to complete as much work as possible from the ground, ensure safe access and egress and importantly, make certain that any equipment used is suitable and designed for that purpose, installed and used by a competent person and inspected as required by the Working at Height Regulations 2005 and relevant guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working at height breaches on construction sites have risen by 84% in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Building Safety Group (BSG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[676,432,753],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-safety-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-health-safety","9":"tag-safety"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work at height breaches soar by 84% on construction sites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Working at height breaches on construction sites have risen by 84% in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Building Safety Group (BSG)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/working-at-height-breaches\/92686\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work at height breaches soar by 84% on construction sites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Working at height breaches on construction sites have risen by 84% in the first quarter of 2021, according to the Building Safety Group (BSG)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/working-at-height-breaches\/92686\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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