Are sub-contractors and their employees sufficiently aware of the risks involved in working at height?

In a follow up question, I was asked: "Are sub-contractors and their employees sufficiently aware of the risks involved in working at height?"

In my experience, this varies a lot. Some of the small contractors are very savvy with respect to work at height while others are not. Although the same picture is evident for the larger contractors too, but I often find that there is poor perception of the risks from temporary staff brought in during a project. The fact that falls from height remain the biggest single cause of workplace fatalities shows that there is still some way to go in raising the profile up to the right level (38 out of 171 workplace fatalities in 2011-11).

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