HomeMemorial safety programme
Making sure our cemeteries are safe to visit and work in is a requirement of our job.
There have been a small number of tragic incidents in other areas where people have been killed or injured as a result of unsafe memorials and headstones.
From April 2009 to April 2010, we will be inspecting headstones and memorials in Belfast City Cemetery to check they are secure.
The work is the result of a directive from the Health and Safety Executive, the organisation responsible for cemetery safety in the UK.
We will then extend the inspection programme to our other cemeteries, subject to resources.
As Belfast City Cemetery is the largest of our cemeteries, we will complete the work in stages.
Work will begin in the oldest part of the cemetery first, at the junction of Falls Road and Whiterock Road. Inspections in the Glenalina section of the site will begin later this year.
- who will carry out the inspections?
- what do the inspections involve?
- when will memorials be assessed?
- who is responsible for repairing memorials?
