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s the construction industry starts to rebound in the UK, buildings will be heading upwards rather than outwards. According to a report by New London Architecture, there are 525 buildings with 20 floors or more planned for London alone. OSH professionals will be increasingly facing the problem of how to consistently operate safely at height. ‘Some people seem to struggle with what work at height actually is,’ says Ray Cooke, health and safety adviser to the No Falls Foundation charity (nofallsfoundation. org) and former head of the GB Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Construction Sector Safety Team. ‘Reporting of injuries [RIDDOR] used to distinguish between low and high falls, and many seemed to think that low falls somehow did not pose any
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