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Health and safety in the quarry industry

Since the launch of the industry’s Hard Target Initiative in 2000, the industry has achieved a 55% reduction in accidents (up to the year 2006/07) and is now looking forward to Target Zero, which aims to achieve zero reportable accidents by 2015.

However, quarrying still remains one of the most dangerous industries to work in, since 2000 over 2700 workers have suffered an injury reportable to HSE, 21 of those being fatal.

These pages explain what HSE is doing to tackle key health and safety issues in the quarry industry, and provide access to a range of information, resources and further points of contact.

The main causes of injury continue to be:

The main causes of occupational ill health continue to be:

 

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55% accident reduction in 7 years

Changes to RIDDOR