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Is the industry moving ahead fast enough on road safety?
That’s the question Construction Manager is asking in a ground-breaking online survey, sponsored by Mace, DAF, SIG and the Road Haulage Association. CM wants to find out how much progress the sector is making in eliminating the risks that have led to a catalogue of fatalities and serious accidents among cyclists and pedestrians – a catalogue that threatens to undermine the industry’s improving reputation in other areas of health and safety. London has been at the centre of the problem, with more than half of fatalities among cyclists in recent years involving large vehicles.
In 2011, seven out of 11 cyclist deaths were linked to construction vehicles. Late last year, as the industry began to wake up to the problem, an appalling eight deaths were linked to HGVs and buses in a six-week period. But the issue is not just a London one: HGVs and buses are involved in about 15% of cyclist and 10% of pedestrian fatalities nationwide.
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