Safety at work
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• Increasing concern about the approximately 3000 reportable accidents a year from the use of transport on construction sites is mentioned in the Annual Report of HM Chief Inspector of Factories 1971, just published by HMSO at £1.
The author, Mr Bryan Harvey, says that time and money must be lavished by industry on protecting employees and the community in the same way that it is lavished upon improving industrial techniques and developing new ways of manufacturing.
"Sheer indifference", says Mr Harvey, "by some employers to the safety of their workers is perhaps the greatest obstacle to further improvement in accident prevention."
Nevertheless, the Chief Inspector reports that fatalities in all premises subject to the Factories Act fell from 556 in 1970 (itself the best ever this century) to 525. Britain, he adds, is one of the safest and healthiest places in which to work.