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L- R: Jonathan Caughey, CEF Federation Manager; Declan McLogan, CEF H & S Committee Chair and Mark Spence, CEF Managing Director, launch the Safety Reboot initiative.
JONATHAN CAUGHEY, FEDERATION MANAGER AT THE CEF, DISCUSSES THE UPCOMING SAFETY REBOOT INITIATIVE AND CHANGES TO CSR... CEF looks forward to SafetyReboot
F ollowing a year that everyone would like to forget, the Construction Employers Federation is looking forward to a new month-long initiative, Safety Reboot, in January 2021 as a chance to refocus on key areas of construction health and safety. Looking back 2020 got off to an awful start in Northern Ireland with
four fatalities as a result of falls from height very early in the year and, while statistics are often batted around, the reality is that this is four people who did not return from work one day as they had planned to, four families devastated by the loss of a loved one. According to HSENI, falls from height remain one of the biggest causes of death, disability and injury on construction sites in Northern Ireland. As the world reacted to Covid-19 and terms such as social-distancing became a part of our everyday lives, health and safety became the priority consideration and the construction industry came together to find ways of ensuring the safety of workers at the same time as continuing to operate, albeit at lower levels of activity. Made up of Federation members, the CEF set up a Covid-19 Taskforce in response to the virus which identified the need for safe ways of
working to be developed and led to the formation of the Health & Safety Subgroup. The H&S Subgroup reviewed and compiled guidance on best practices and resources to assist companies and provide a route to getting back to site safely. While the onset of a global pandemic has undoubtedly changed the way we live and work, the CEF has been proud of how Northern Ireland’s construction industry showed great collaboration and adaptability to ‘keep the show on the road’ during a time of extreme adversity. LOOKING FORWARD Safety Reboot will start the first week back after the Christmas break. The aim of the initiative is to encourage construction companies to stop work for about fifteen minutes, once a week throughout January, to take time to focus on key areas of health and
Workers from Combined Facilities Management (CFM) at a recent team talk.
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