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There's a broad misunderstanding about "essential work". Gov advice is that if you can't work from home, you can go to work but you try to do it as safely as possible. Any type of non-essential work can be done apart from specific businesses/activities that have been closed. So the idea that there would be a policed "line" is irrelevant.
The problem is that many building sites are difficult if not impossible to work in safely given lack of handwashing, cramped welfare facilities, dimensions of scaffolding, two-person manual handling etc.
There's also something of a problematic power dynamic on many projects. Construction workers may feel they have no choice except to go to work in dangerous conditions (even more so than usual). Perhaps HSE can get called in over sites that aren't safe to work in.