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Out Of The 59 Fatalities, The Construction Of Commercial Buildings Caused 8 ...

Out of the 59 fatalities, the construction of commercial buildings caused 8 deaths; the construction of domestic buildings caused 8 deaths; the construction of highways, roads, airfields and sports facilities caused 8 deaths, and the installation of electrical wires and fittings caused 7 deaths (HSC, 2007 (7)).
It may be argued that these statistics are random occurrences and that perhaps they should be accepted as such. However, it is perhaps a more credible analysis that these fatalities are directly related to the health and safety procedures which are recognised, observed and implemented on construction sites throughout the UK. The relationship between developing health and safety regulations, in particular the CDM regulations and the incidences of fatalities and accidents on construction sites is an important one to study. It is notable that since the development of more robust health and safety regulation, there has been a notable overall reduction in the rates of accidents which occur on building sites.
This relationship between accident statistics and the regulation of health and safety on construction sites in the UK will be the focus of the project. The CDM regulations and their effects upon various stakeholders within the industry will be examined in detail, and there will be a discussion relating to how the improvement of the processes involved and related to the regulation may further impact upon accident statistics within the UK. The focus of the study will also be how further reductions in the rates of accidents relating to the construction industry may be further achieved.
Comparison with accident statistics in other countries
Is the rate of accidents in the construction industry a phenomenon confined to the construction industry in the UK, or is it a world-wide phenomenon? Looking at the statistics below which have been compiled by the regulatory agencies of the construction industry in Ireland suggests that the rate of accidents relating in the construction industry is a world-wide phenomenon which is not just confined to the UK.
The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry in Ireland and in the UK are comparable, when the overall distribution of data is considered, with the rate of accidents in Ireland falling from 8.3% (per 100000 workers) to 4.0% per 100000 workers. Looking at figure two which compares the overall fatality rate within the construction industry in Ireland with the overall fatality rates for other industries, the trend for fatalities to occur in the construction industry can clearly be seen. In both the UK and Ireland therefore fatalities in the construction industry are a common pattern.
Figure 1.

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