Health and safety

Health and safety is integral to the success of any project, from design
and construction to subsequent operation and maintenance

• All designs will address health and safety issues and all projects will
  have a risk register
• Construction projects will aspire to be injury and incident-free
• Every project will have a strategy to deal with occupational health and
  provide full-time qualified medical staff on site
• All health and safety risks, including those relating to occupational
  health, will be assessed, managed, action taken and communicated from
  inception to design
• Companies will sign up to and implement the Strategic Forum Health
  and Safety Code
• All professional and site staff will hold Construction Skills Certification
  Scheme (CSCS) cards or equivalent

The SFfC Health and Safety Task Group meet under the chairmanship of John Spanswick .  An extensive agenda is being delivered with a specific focus on SME’s.

2012 targets

10% reduction in the incidence rate of fatal and major injuries from 2010 levels

50% increase in projects offering a route to Occupational Health support from 2008

30% increase from 2007 level of micro-SME’s and SME’s taking up H&S training and education at an organisational level