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Posted By Mitch
As it's Friday and I'm off to the pub in 10 min's can I leave this with you all? Is there any statistical information available on head injuries in the construction industry comparing the good old days with the present day and the wearing of hard hats, specifically frequency/No's, cause of injury and type of injuries suffered?
Mitch
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Posted By Tony abc jprhdnMurphy
Brickies dont need hards although everyone working underneath them should, they are a nightmare!!!
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Posted By Anthony Edwards
I had someone drop a tape measure from 3 lifts up on a scaffold, great shot hit me right on the helmet. Site foreman who dropped it of his belt was a bit embarrassed.
Mitch have a beer for me am working my way through the DDA Act, light reading for a Fri afternoon.
Nutty
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Posted By Chris Pope
I went to a seminar around 1996 where Frank Davies told us that the helmet regs was the most successful piece of legislation ever put in place saving around 30 + lives p.a. He had witnessed a nut falling through a skull coming out of the throat of the individual and he had absolutely no sympathy for any excuse for not wearing them when other work takes place overhead.
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Posted By William
Just spotted this and on the subject of brickies and something that happened on Sunday whilst me the wife and our daughter were painting the fence, I have just thought of the following to add to this one.
A builder is working in the sunshine all day and the legendary builders bum comes into view, is there any evidence that skin cancer is more prevalent in this area of a builders body, IE the bottom of the back and top of the buttocks, and should h&s personnel advise builders to cover up (yes I know we may have an excuse to get rid of these eyesores) or put suntan lotion on these areas to prevent skin cancer, this may be a problem in the future due to the sunnier summers. Or do you all think I am just ripping the a*** out of it!! (sorry had to be said).
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Posted By patrick carr
Hi
William, the construction union UCATT, is well aware of the dangers of skin cancer to construction workers, they have published guidance notes and included information on the risks of skin cancer in their quarterly magazine 'Building Worker', in addition the construction company i am employed at supplies sunscreen protection cream, as std practice at all our sites.
best regards
paddy
ps never mind my builders bum, you should see my knobbly knees.
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Posted By Mitch
I'm not bothered about bums just on head injury statistics in the construction industry of which there does not appear to be any available!
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Posted By Della Pearlman
Hallo Mitch
I couldn't let that challenge pass by - there are statistics but not in the UK. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics published a report on head injuries and hard hats in 1980 - I contacted them for you, and they have send me a pdf of the scan of the report.
If its not too old and you would like to have it, if you email me, I will send it to you
Della
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Posted By Mitch
Della,
An excellent set of stat's which one would assume to be mirrored if available in the UK. Some alarming points covered but also some that raised a chuckle, 33% of those questioned estimated the weight of the object causing the head injury at OVER 30lbs!
Thanks again,
Mitch
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