A campaign is being launched today to inform Polish construction workers based in London about on-site health and safety.
Research has suggested that foreign workers are vulnerable to potentially dangerous working practices and the Polish community is one of three nationalities receiving advice in particular. The new HSE campaign wants to get the message across to Polish workers about the role of the HSE in helping to protect them using existing law and making them aware that they have just as many rights to a healthy and safe working environment as indigenous workers.
Philip White, HSE's Chief Inspector of Construction said: "We recognised that we needed to target health and safety information at some of the more vulnerable workers in construction. We have employed specialist outreach representatives from the Polish community to get our messages across much more effectively to London-based workers. Reducing the risks faced by the most vulnerable enables all construction workers to work in safer conditions and we hope will minimise potentially dangerous incidents on site."
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