Safety vs profit in building sector – The Mail & Guardian

Safety vs profit in building sector – The Mail & Guardian

Globally, falls from height remain the single largest cause of construction-related deaths. It’s a statistic that feels distant until you see what’s happening on the ground. I was driving through the Eastern Cape recently when something on a construction site left me speechless. A warehouse was going up, steel frame exposed, nothing unusual there.  Here’s the part that left me puzzled: workers walking along the structure, balancing several metre…