Influences: What influences construction activity in the sector, and which have the
most impact on a project’s health and safety management (both at the small and
larger project scale)?
Background
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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on monitoring systems for construction safety but does not address all influences on construction activity.