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| UK’s top engineers set international health and safety standards The UK's top engineering firms, Atkins, Arup, Halcrow and Mott MacDonald, have come together to launch an industry-leading health and safety assessment to the international construction community. With construction workers three to four times more likely than other workers to suffer from fatal accidents at work, the main driver of this initiative is to reduce health and safety risks on international construction sites. The four companies set up the Consultants H&S Forum with an objective to improve health and safety across the sector and to share good practice. The Forum has worked with ConstructionSkills to develop an assessment which is a software programme suitable for international application. The computer-based health and safety assessment is to be conducted on location in company offices under local invigilation. A certificate will be awarded upon the successful completion of 50 questions randomly selected from a bank of 500. The Consultants H&S Forum will be co-ordinating the international implementation of the assessment with ConstructionSkills with initial focus on the Middle East, followed by India, Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe and North America. The international health and safety assessment forms part of a suite of products on offer from ConstructionSkills including UK assessments, training and awards. As the UK has the ConstructionSkills health and safety test that is a requirement of many card schemes in the UK including the CPCS and CSCS cards, this new assessment does not apply to the UK. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |