Coroner's inquest reported to have made safety recommendations after a fatal accident during wind farm construction

An inquest is reported to have examined a fatal accident that occurred during construction work at a wind farm and to have issued recommendations following the hearing. Only a headline and a short feed summary were available at the time of writing. The location, the date of the accident, the number of people involved, the activity underway at the time and the content of the recommendations were not reported in the material available. It is not confirmed from the available material whether the site is onshore or offshore. This entry is held as a stub and should be updated or withdrawn once a primary report is obtained.

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1. Treat coroner, regulator and equivalent published findings on construction fatalities as an input to your own risk reviews, including where your organisation was not involved, and record the review in the safety management system.
2. Maintain construction phase risk assessments, permit to work arrangements and supervision that are separate from those written for the operational phase, and review them at each change of contractor or method.
3. Document, before construction starts, the reporting and duty holder lines between asset owner, principal contractor and subcontractors, so that incident notification and investigation responsibilities are clear.
4. Where recommendations are issued after an incident elsewhere, log each one, assess it against your own arrangements and record what was changed or why no change was needed.
5. Confirm that fatalities and serious injuries during construction are captured in the asset's incident reporting route and not only in the contractor's own system.

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