At your peril?

To write successful business in the increasingly accident-prone construction market, underwriters must be thorough in their assessment of a company and its management attitude, explains Trish White.

The Health & Safety Executive's provisional statistics for 2001 have
indicated an increase of 34% in fatalities for British workers, with 295
deaths compared with 220 in 1999/2000. Of these, 106 occurred in the
construction industry and were largely from falls from a height, moving
vehicles, falling or moving objects and objects collapsing or
overturning.


This is particularly disappointing for an industry that had made great
strides in reducing fatalities in previous years. So what can insurers do
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