Call for renewed focus on health and safety after two deaths and a serious injury on London construction sites last week
Campaigners have warned employers that they must crack down on health and safety following two deaths and a serious injury on construction sites in London last week.
Last week a worker died on the Crossrail project, the first fatality on the 拢15bn infrastructure project, and another worker, who was named as Kevin Campbell, 46, from Poplar in east London, died on a construction site in Stratford. Campbell was struck by equipment on an excavator.
A worker was also seriously injured after a crane collapsed on a Balfour Beatty site in the Docklands.
Peter Farrell, chair of the Construction Safety Campaign, said employers must refocus on heath and safety: 鈥淭here must be no return to the killing fields of old on London鈥檚 construction sites. We demand urgent action by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) telling all construction employers they will not tolerate any increase in construction worker deaths.
鈥淭here must also be more HSE construction inspectors working pro-actively to prevent any increase in deaths in the construction industry.
鈥淐onstruction employers must also stop banning trade union activity on site as they are currently on some major projects in London.
鈥淭hey must be reminded of the positive influence of unions as happened on the Olympics site where happily no-one was killed.鈥�
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