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:
At this time not only is there a global pandemic for the novel coronavirus COVID-19, at time of writing this application there is the 11th outbreak of Ebola being fought in Africa, Europe is recovering from a 3-year outb...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: DATA INNOVATION.AI LTD
The project partially answers the question by addressing the adoption of new technologies and work practices in the construction sector, but does not specifically mention chemicals or their regulation.
**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 partially answers the question by focusing on the use of video analytics and machine learning to enable safer and more efficient construction, but does not specifically mention chemicals or their regulation.
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 partially answers the question by addressing the importance of design for safety in the construction sector, but does not specifically mention chemicals or their regulation.