Most people involved with workplace safety are very aware of the iceberg theory.  
Its very simple. For every recorded incident sitting above the surface, there are many unrecorded near misses submerged below the surface.
Capture the near misses and act on the causes in order to reduce or eliminate actual incidents occurring.
In most companies an incident results in a rigorous Incident Report, an inquest into why the incident happened and actions to prevent it from happening again.  
All well and good and very necessary

Preamble
I have worked in many companies that I would describe as extremely safety focused and yet they still have incidents.  The incident investigation will always reveal a cause.  Some causes are more obvious than others but there is always a preventable cause.  It may be human,  it may be equipment, it may be process.  But always preventable.

Preamble
All too often, people switch off the safety mindset when they leave their place of work .  Whether at work or not, there is a need to think and act safely, always.  Because of the high safety focus in most industrial work situations, there is a tendency for people to “switch off”, when not in the work environment.   It is very common for the mindset to be  “at work  = high danger, non work places = low to zero danger”.  Of course the reality is that danger is lurking everywhere and we need to think and act accordingly.

On the face of it, it seems simple - keep the pedestrians away from the vehicles and there will not be any pedestrian accidents. How hard can that be?

Roads are for vehicles, pavements are for pedestrians. QED i.e. quod erratum demonstrandum or that which was to have been proved

So what about the cyclists, don't they need to share the road. Well yes and no. So how do we keep the cyclists away from the automobiles.

I read an interesting article “Construction: Blueprint for action” located on SHP (Safety & Health Practitioner) and that got me onto a train of thought about the construction industry in general, Manufacturing Techniques and Design for Inherent Safety in Construction.

Construction sites have a lot of history.  They are generally a landscape inhabited by hard men in hard hats and any females on the site are twice as hard as the men. Workers are set in their ways, they will resist change of any kind and there is a macho culture as far as safety is concerned.   Safety is for wimps.   
Traditionally the unions are very strong and are generally instrumental in advocating for increased safety –
As in most industrial environments, everybody is an instant expert after an incident with a detailed explanation of what should have been done to avoid it.