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Health and safety
Over the last ten years safety awareness has grown to become the overriding factor in decisions relating to fieldwork and out of class activities in general i.e. taking priority over financial considerations and learning/research opportunities. A number of well-publicised cases, the switch from legal aid to no win/no fee and the litigation/compensation culture, have played an important part, particularly as far as schools and educational institutions are concerned (although there are other important factors such as critical examination by legal and financial officers of the implications of off site as opposed to wholly on site activities rising insurance premiums, etc) and an acute awareness by the industry of the prime position of improving the safety record of quarrying, especially as reflected in the Quarries Regulations 1999 coverage of risk control.
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