Report - Prevention of Risks in Construction – In Practice
Throughout the EU there is a growing recognition that standards of occupational safety and health in construction have to be improved. Each year, in the original EU-15 Member States alone, about 1300 workers are killed, another 800,000 injured and countless more suffer ill health. The human suffering caused by accidents and ill health is distressing to all concerned, the extent of which is impossible to calculate.
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