A minute’s silence was observed to remember the 37 people who died as a result of incidents at work last year., co-ordinator of Environmental Health and Safety with Walls Construction, said there remained few women in the construction industry but those that were there were making it safer.
“We talk about safety, we’re talking about health and we’re now starting to talk about wellbeing, wellness. “We’re talking about having mindfulness apps on our phones, lunchtime yoga, healthy lunches going out to all the sites, looking at subscriptions to gym memberships. All of these things we wouldn’t have talked about five or ten years ago because construction would have been quite macho. But now we are opening up and women have brought some of these ideas to the table.“So I would love to see more women coming into construction to bring this energy, talent and extra skills through.