管理健康和Safety Risks (No. 30): Fires on construction sites

Transport-related accidents are the second largest cause of injury in the workplace after falls from height. Every year in the UK, around 50 people are killed and 2000 seriously injured in such incidents in and around construction sites and other workplaces. This article considers the safety issues regarding both visitors to a construction site and staff employed full time on a site.

All excavation work is potentially hazardous; the collapse of excavation faces can have serious consequences, both for life and purely as an economic loss.

While the previous article in the series described the general dangers posed by electricity on site and identified isolation of electrical circuits as a key activity to control risks, this article provides more detail on the need for electrical isolation. It is of particular relevance to refurbishment and demolition projects.