Health and Safety Not Being Impacted By Recession
A majority of senior level construction professionals believe that recession did not have any significant impact on health and safety measures in their organisations. The research was presented by the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
About 1,260 persons were surveyed by the CIOB to arrive at these figures. According to statistics collected during the survey, about 85% of these professionals feel that recession has not affected health and safety measures. More than a third of these professionals said the spending in such endeavours has gone up in the last year. This includes expenditure on health and safety training also. A smaller 12.6 % felt that the spending has gone down.
A massive 69% of the respondents accredited their company with maintaining a serious approach to health and safety. However, a quarter of those surveyed considered that while health and safety is treated with importance, it does not top the list of priorities.
Giving their opinions on how health and safety could be improved, the respondents said that improving the training processes and creating more awareness about risks would go along way in reducing accidents and injuries at the workplace.
When asked about the regulations and guidelines to be imposed for such practices, about 44% said that health and safety is not excessively supervised. Nearly one fourth even said that no amount of regulation could be excessive in this area. Many however felt that HSE was under resourced.
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