NASC ARCHIVE ACCIDENT FIGURES FROM 1975 TO 1980

In March 1972, the 19-member subcommittee of the Department of Employment Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) was tasked to make recommendations to improve safety in the scaffolding sector and report back to the JAC. Two members of the NASC Council served on this committee, Bill Orwin and Antony Carr. Nine recommendations were made and implemented, one of which was for the scaffolding industry to produce meaningful accident statistics. In 1975 (a year after the Department of Employment’s report Safety of Scaffolding was published) the NASC collated and issued accident statistics and continues to do so to this day (see TABLE 1 for latest figures). These figures are a reminder of where we were as a scaffolding industry (see table below) and reminds us of the importance of driving safety today.