The Minister for Industry today launched the Construction Leadership Council’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing strategy at a summit attended by over 150 industry leaders.
The strategy will deliver better heath, safety and wellbeing across the construction sector, by focusing on driving industry-wide change, and within firms, from the boardroom to the construction site, through leaders taking personal responsibility for improving Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
The CLC will tackle these issues head-on working in partnership between government and industry, with greater communication, more in-person engagement, and more transparency around incidents so the sector can learn the right lessons when something goes wrong
It will focus on a number of key challenges including reducing the number of fatalities happening on site; and improving mental health given that depression and anxiety account for nearly half of all work-related sickness.
The UK deserves a safe and healthy construction workforce, and that workforce deserves leadership and forward-thinking in turn. The CLC’s Strategy provides that leadership. If you want to know more and get involved, please contact Stuart.Young@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Read the full press release here.
