Keywords: health and safety, work at height, fragile roofs, roof, rooflight,

Focus on: fragile roofs

Feature | HSW
11.02.2008

More than one in five fatalities (22%) resulting from falls from height in the construction industry involve people falling through fragile material. The HSE says that, on average, one person a month dies at work after falling through a fragile roof or rooflight.

And it isn't just roo ...

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