Construction: Death
(asked on 3rd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what change there has been in the length of time between a fatal accident and a prosecution over the last five years.
This question was answered on 11th February 2016
For fatalities in construction (Standard Industrial Classification Section F) resulting in a prosecution approval by HSE between 2010/11 and 2014/15, the average time between the date of incident and the date prosecution action was approved in each year is as follows:
Year of approval | Average number of days between incident and prosecution approval by HSE |
2010/11 | 877 |
2011/12 | 841 |
2012/13 | 783 |
2013/14 | 851 |
2014/15 | 879 |