The Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety Executive

HSE find that safety is still not given enough priority ­ even in the City of London three Prohibition Notices and two Improvement Notices were served one day in July on some of the biggest building sites.

A schoolboy was injured in King's Road, SW3 when rubble fell from scaffolding ­ many of us have seen this rubble falling in such cases. Watch it!

The number of fatal accidents rose in two years from 258 to 302 ­ not much of an advertisement for site safety ­ but it probably reflects the increase in building work. Non-fatal injuries fell last year ­ by 6.6 per cent.