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health and safety Executive Occupational health standards in the construction industry Prepared by the health and safety Laboratory for the health and safety Executive 2007 RR584 Research Report health and safety Executive Occupational health standards in the construction industry Anil Adisesh, Roger Rawbone Jacqui Foxlow & Jo Harris Roberts health Improvement Group health and safety Laboratory Harpur Hill Buxton SK17 9JN HSE estimates that 2,000,000 people within the UK currently suffer from an illness caused by, or made worse by the working environment. Ill health can have a significant impact on the productivity of a business sickness absence costs the UK economy an estimated 12 billion per annum. In 2005/2006 the construction industry had the second highest rate of self reported illness attributed to work at 3,800 cases per 100,000 employed persons ( health and safety statistics 2005/06 HSE Books 2006). construction workers have a high overall mortality rate, independent of social class, with bricklayers and labourers being recorded as having the second highest mortality rate (Snashall, 2005).
Health and Safety Executive Occupational health standards in the construction industry Anil Adisesh, Roger Rawbone Jacqui Foxlow & Jo HarrisRoberts
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