To enable strategic and transformative advances in health and safety across the diverse construction sector through technology and innovation and the new opportunities and risks arising from it. To underpin construction and building safety regulatory regimes with evidence-based approaches and enable effective oversight across the whole built environment. To inform standards and guidance development to improve the safety and standard of buildings and develop effective strategies to measure and build competence across the construction and building safety sectors. To ensure that our approach to regulating chemicals and microbial control agents: is effective, efficient and agile, reflecting current and developing scientific understanding and technical knowledge; reinforces our position as an internationally influential regulator; and enables society to derive the benefits of access to safe and sustainable use of chemicals; and ensure there is no harm to workers, bystanders and consumers or unacceptable effects on the environment.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The global construction sector is estimated to account for 100,000 fatalities annually and about 30-40% of all fatal occupational injuries. In the UK, although the construction sector accounts for only approximately 5% o...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project focuses on improving health and safety in the construction sector, specifically through design for safety (DfS) capability, which directly addresses the question.
The funding sought aligns with the grant themes of remote-working or working at socially safe distances in the construction sector as it emerges progressively from the Covid-19 pandemic. Supporting the government's Indus...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: HBXL GROUP LIMITED
The project focuses on improving health and safety on small construction sites, which partially addresses the question. However, it does not specifically mention the influence on construction activity or the impact on project's health and safety management.
**Introduction** The COVID-19 contingency has highlighted the urgent need for site monitoring systems that enable measuring relative distances, effectively and accurately, among workers and plant equipment to ensure saf...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: ZEST CONSULT LTD
The project focuses on enabling safer and more efficient construction through video analytics and machine learning, which partially addresses the question. However, it does not specifically mention the influences on construction activity or the impact on project's health and safety management.