Why is safety under lock and key?
Surely no-one would take potentially life-saving health and safety advice and lock it away. Would they?
Although it feels less likely with each passing anniversary, the findings of the Thames Valley Police and Health and Safety Executive investigation into the collapse of Didcot A Power Station boiler house will surely be published one day.
The families of the four men that were killed on that terrible day will finally understand the circumstances that led to their deaths. Those findings will likely offer no comfort, but they might provide at least some sense of closure.
To those companies involved, regardless of the outcome, those findings will signal a lowering of the Sword of Damocles that has been hanging over them for almost 3,000 days now.
And the demolition industry will finally and belatedly learn of any fundamental flaws in its approach to demolishing power stations in general and hung boilers in particular.
All as it should be. Such knowledge belongs in the public domain and in the hands of everyone in the global demolition industry. It is knowledge that could save lives and that could prevent a repeat of the protracted suffering endured by the families of the four men killed at Didcot.
No-one would want potentially life-saving advice or guidance redacted, locked away, or made available only to the members of a tiny members club, would they?
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