ConIAC 18th March 2014

Construction 2025H&S Challenges

Gren Tipper - Construction Clients’ Groupand member of

Construction Leadership Council Delivery Group

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“improving performance

in the domestic repair and

maintenance market”

“Engage and inspire

young people”

“Maintain the UK’s globalleadership position in healthand safety by driving upstandards on smaller projects

and bringing greater focus tooccupational health”

“Our goal is for the UK construction industry to operate under safe and healthy conditions at least comparable to other sectors of the economy”

“bring the same focus

to health as it has to

safety”

“Industry and Government will work together to improve the image of the industry”

“zero harm

becomes the

norm”

Construction 2025

“build on the

achievements of the

highest performing

projects”

Our Industry can be broken down into 3 broad segments:

Larger professional companies with developed predominantly longer standing supply chain partners

Medium to small sized professional companies traditional sub-contracted supply chain

Largely unregulated smaller contractors operating in the domestic/small occasional client area

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Larger professional

Medium to small/microprofessional

Unregulated smallerenterprises

Training/Competence Safety Health

Y/Y Y/Y Y/?

Y/Y

?/N

?/NY/?

N/N?/N

*/* directly employed or supported as such/sub contracted but limited direction

An indication of where the challenges lie in the industry:

Construction 2025

ConIAC is seen as best means of engaging industry

ConIAC is good at tasks but can be slow for good reasons – how can the CLC support ?

What makes us world class?

What part can the professionalparts of the industry play in influencing and supporting the difficult to reach parts of the industry?

Rapid growth

New people to train

How do we share the work outHow do we eat the elephant?

What is Government’s role in dealing with the unregulated sector?

What part does the regulatory framework play in our success?

What proportions make up the segments or is there a better way to segment to focus improvements and support

Need to get over “not invented here syndrome”

What are our current areas of excellence and how do we make better use of them?

Build on what we have - collaborate

Emerging from a major recession

Building on what we are doing wellas World leaders

Foreign workers

The industry image is disproportionatelyimpacted upon by the minority