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16 Jan 2012

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Engineering News [So. Africa]

Construction stakeholders to launch safety initiative [So. Africa]

To improve the overall health, safety and welfare within the local construction industry, a group of construction-related companies will launch a nonprofit organisation called BuildSafe South Africa (BSA), later this week. The organisation’s founding members Sasol Technology, Aveng Grinaker-LTA, Murray & Roberts, Fluor and Foster Wheeler said in a statement that BSA...would advocate the free exchange and sharing of information between organisations working in the South African construction industry...Fluor health, safety, and environmental director Shane van der Nest said the BSA initiative was “aimed at influencing the construction industry’s attitude and disposition towards health, safety and welfare for workers through improving overall awareness and understanding”.