Armitt blames failure to cut site deaths on people taking short cuts

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Olympic Delivery Authority chairman John Armitt this week blamed those who take shortcuts and the people who turn a blind eye to it for the industry's failure to cut fatalities on site. Giving the annual ICE Capita Symonds safety lecture, Armitt said that changes to tackling safety seen on major sites and on smaller responsible sites have been significant. However, he stressed that figures from the Health and Safety Executive have shown fatality figures have remained static in the past six or seven years. Despite citing moving vehicles and falling from height as the principal cause of these deaths, Armitt added: "My own observations tell me that the cause is often an individual taking a shortcut. Management and people at director level make a mistake if they simply say that person is a 'silly chump' [for taking a shortcut].